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TIL the salt flats of western India have a "Wild Ass Sanctuary", meant for the endangered "Indian wild ass".

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0EWR TIL in 1995 a man deposited a junk mail cheque for $95,093.35, and it cashed. The bank took too long to realise and the money was now legally his.
5VWlQ TIL that Olive Oatman, a white girl kidnapped by Native Americans in 1851 and sold to the Mojave people as a slave, caused an uproar after returning to white society bare-breasted with blue tattoos across her face, which inspired the book "Life Among the Indians", an early American best seller.
mxv9M TIL that even though Jupiter's moon Io ("EYE-oh") has no water, it still has waves. The force from the gravity of Jupiter and its other massive moons pulls Io's surface up and down on all sides causing waves of rock up to 100 meters (328 ft.) high.
GjvG TIL A 512-bit CPU would be capable of addressing more bytes than there are fundamental particles in the observable universe.
N7V5Q TIL after NASA retrieved a stolen lunar sample collection bag from the 1969 apollo 11 moon mission, they inadvertently sold it at auction to a private collector for $995 in 2015. after going to court and losing their case & ownership, the collector sold the bag at auction for $1.8 million in 2017.