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TIL after India, the state of Texas now has the world's second-largest tiger population

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Zp8mY TIL the average life expectancy for someone with Down’s syndrome was 25 years old in 1983 and today the average is 60 years old.
e0Rob TIL in 1848 entrepreneur James Lick arrived in San Francisco with 600 lbs of chocolate to sell. When all of his chocolate sold quickly, he urged his confectioner friend in Peru to come to San Francisco and start his own Chocolate company. That confectioner's name is Domingo Ghirardelli.
YpKYr TIL In 1490 a meteor shower in China killed 20,000 people.
NXZDb TIL that the food SPAM is a mix of "Spice" and "Ham", despite the fact that neither of those ingredients are included in SPAM
YbQB TIL Franklin Pierce, the 14th President of the United States, has been the only president to date who affirmed (in law) rather than swore to the oath of office