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TIL whenever staff members at a panda center in China have to interact with a cub, they put on panda costumes sprayed with panda urine in order to limit human contact

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6Eg68 TIL If you have a rope long enough to wrap around the entire circumference of the globe. The rope is 24,901.55 miles long. If you now want to lengthen the rope so that it can hover one foot off the ground at all points on earth. It only takes just 6.28 feet more of rope.
PYaLg TIL that Clint Eastwood made two movies about the Battle of Iwo Jima, one each for the Japanese and America points of view
PYMKn TIL that every Canadian citizen in Canada can vote, including convicts and persons diagnosed with mental illness, with one exception - the Chief Electoral Officer.
pXk4 TIL of malariotherapy. The treatment consisted of injecting patients who had developed psychosis as a result of late-stage syphilis with blood from soldiers with malaria. It actually worked and won the Nobel Prize in 1927.
rRjgd TIL that some crustaceans absorb carbon for their shells and sink to the seafloor when they die, turning into rock and locking away the carbon.