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TIL the largest difference between the time zones of two countries is 26 hours

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4law TIL that 12,000 bears are farmed for their bile in Asia which is used in traditional Chinese medicine and generates $2bn per year. Farming always involves surgery on the bears to insert a catheter or to cut a hole through the abdomen by which the bile leaks. Bear bile has no medicinal effect.
8a7DX TIL About Thomas Fuller an illiterate enslaved African whose Math Genius shocked Colonists, capable of quickly solving math problems in his head he earned the title of “The Mental Calculator” serving as a figurehead of Africans not being mentally inferior to Whites further abolitionist efforts
Yk9r TIL in 2008 the Supreme Court of the United States ruled the 2nd Amendment was founded to protect an individuals right to use a firearm for self-defense and any lawful purpose such as hunting, in contrary to belief that it was only about muskets used to take down a tyrannical government.
QNn7d TIL During a 6-mo period, 2,055 Brown Recluse spiders were collected in a 19th-century-built home in Lenexa, KS. Estimates show that at least 400 spiders were large enough to cause envenomation. A family of 4 had been living there since 1996 and had never been bit despite seeing them multiple times.
gMK0X TIL that due to error in communication, the state of Missouri assumed that a man Michael Anderson was in prison, serving his 13-year sentence for armed robbery. They only realised that they had forgotten to take him to jail when they were preparing for him to be released.