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TIL there is still a wild jaguar living in southern Arizona.

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b9n4a TIL that following Kobain's death, Dave Grohl started Foo Fighters as a small side project. When asked later about the name, he responded "Had I actually considered this to be a career, I probably would have called it something else, because it's the stupidest fucking band name in the world."
kOQnE TIL In the 1700's the Mysore Army was using rocket artillery. The weapon was for long distance and against masses of soldiers throughout the Anglo-Mysore Wars. The First Duke of Wellington personally experienced the weapons and the English would adapt them for fighting in the Napoleonic Wars.
4kkgJ TIL that almost all chicken meat is female.
8aD8 TIL that once Truman left the presidency, his only income was his old army pension - $112.56 per month. “I could never lend myself to any transaction, however respectable, that would commercialize on the prestige and dignity of the office of the presidency.”
9bPm TIL Tilda Swinton comes from one of only three families that can trace their unbroken land ownership and lineage to before the Norman Conquest