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TIL Binturongs or Bearcats smell likes buttered popcorn.

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N7Qy1 TIL In 1979 the Black-footed ferret was declared extinct. In 1981 the species was rediscovered when a dog in Meeteetse, Wyoming brought a dead ferret home. A small population was found and today the Black-footed ferret is making a comeback.
grWvX TIL Shampoo was introduced to Britain in 1814. The Bengali surgeon Sake Dean Mahomed opened the Isles' first shampoo bath in Brighton that year and promoted the practice as able to cure many diseases and give full relief when everything else failed.
QJKpa TIL in 1977, the Formula 1 driver, Hans Heyer, was not allowed to start a race after failing to qualify. He snuck onto the circuit with his car and decided to race anyway. It took officials 6 laps to notice and disqualify him from a race he wasn't even technically in.
WkXB TIL that 390,000 UK citizens reported their religion as “Jedi” in a 2001 census.
nl4Y TIL that, when a pope dies, it is tradition to strike him three times on the head with a silver hammer to ensure he is actually dead.