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

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GLX1 TIL that male soldiers in the German military started growing breasts on their left sides due to repeated smacking of their rifles against their chests during precision drills. The focused strikes stimulated the production of hormones causing breast tissue to grow in over 70% of the soldiers.
nWvvW TIL mosquitoes can't transmit HIV because, Only saliva is injected into humans when a mosquito bites and thus HIV positive blood that a mosquito may have previously ingested is never transmitted to other humans.Imagine what would happen if its snout structure isn't built that way.
4lAN TIL Pope John XII died whilst enjoying an adulterous sexual encounter outside Rome at the hands of an outraged husband.
mxAEY TIL of the land of brushes. Kumano city in Japan's Hiroshima prefecture is famous for producing handmade brushes that are used by Hollywood makeup artists among others. But it only specialized in brushmaking after farmers had to sell brushes to earn an income during the agricultural off season.
0w9lR TIL That there are signs in both Sacramento, CA and Ocean City, MD saying that they are 3073 miles away from each other.