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TIL Tiger beetles run so fast they temporarily blind themselves. When moving at up to 120 body lengths per second, their environment becomes a blur as their eyes can’t gather enough light to form an image

by whatilearned June 19, 2022, 5:49 pm

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TIL Former Detroit Tiger broadcasters Rod Allen and Mario Impemba both lost their jobs in 2018 after working together for 16 years after a post game altercation over a chair.

by whatilearned June 9, 2022, 6:56 pm

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TIL of Abdul Gani aka Tiger Gani who has retrieved almost 100 dead bodies of Fishermen and Honey Collectors taken by the tigers in the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world

by whatilearned May 22, 2022, 11:20 pm

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TIL that in 1956, an F11 Tiger test pilot outran his own bullets from his plane’s 20mm cannon. After taking at least three hits from his own bullets, his plane crashed short of the runway after the engine failed. The pilot survived.

by whatilearned May 9, 2022, 11:16 pm

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TIL of the “Boger Swing”, which was purportedly invented and utilized by Wilhelm Boger, “the Tiger of Auschwitz”

by whatilearned May 5, 2022, 7:57 am

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TIL In 1967, Detroit Tiger Mikey Lolich was called to active duty with the National Guard in response to the ongoing Detroit Riots. He then received death threats for his role in quelling the riot. The FBI subsequently placed a team of snipers on the roof of Tiger Stadium during his next two starts.

by whatilearned May 4, 2022, 6:04 pm

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TIL one group of former Disney animators created the designs for Tony the Tiger, Snap, Crackle and Pop, The Jolly Green Giant, and the mascot for the Baltimore Orioles

by whatilearned May 1, 2022, 8:56 pm

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TIL, on this date 25 years ago, Tiger Woods won the Masters Tournament. At 21 years old, he was not only the youngest player ever to have won but also the first African American to do so.

by whatilearned April 13, 2022, 1:36 pm

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TIL Korea has a she-bear foundation myth. A god ordered a tiger and bear to stay in a cave and eat only garlic and mugwort for 100 days. The tiger failed, but the bear persisted and transformed into a woman. The she-bear married the god’s son, gave birth to the founder of the oldest Korean kingdom

by whatilearned April 6, 2022, 11:34 pm

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TIL that a tiger went on an 800-mile journey to find a mate, crossed 11 villages and there was a solitary incident with a human, only when the villager came to take a selfie.

by whatilearned March 20, 2022, 1:35 pm

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TIL of The Bachelor of Powalgarh, an exceptionally large, man-eating Indian Bengal tiger, which was sought after and eventually shot and killed by Jim Corbett in 1930. The tiger was 10 feet 7 inches long

by whatilearned March 12, 2022, 1:16 pm

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GONG XI FUCK CAI YEAR OF THE WATER TIGER EDITION

by CopyPastaArchive January 31, 2022, 2:58 am

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