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TIL: All white tigers are the result of severe inbreeding. Most white tiger cubs are euthanized due to some type of deformity including eyes on the sides of their heads, deformed jaws and teeth, misshapen skeletal structure, mental disabilities, allergies, and weak immune systems

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j6AnN TIL Walking through a doorway can cause a person to forget their original task or thought, known as the "doorway effect."
1aD1O TIL: there is another version of bowling called Candlepin
E17Pd TIL that even though humans are quite numerous inhabitants of the earth, we are outnumbered by chickens by a bit more than 3 times and we are still rapidly increasing their numbers.
Rp46 TIL of Charlotte, a young girl who was experiencing 300 grand mal seizures a week until she was treated with marijuana. That specific strand is now called Charlotte’s Web.
4kel5 TIL that Canadian Parliament maintains a record of debates in both English and French known as Hansard. During a Liberal filibuster in the Senate of Canada, Senator Philippe Gigantès was accused of reading one of his books only so that he could get the translation for free through the Hansard.