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TIL Rhino horns are being injected with poison to scare off consumer demand.

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g9WX TIL that the concurrent Navy training and testing could potentially kill hundreds of whales and dolphins and disable thousands over the next five years.
mKOp TIL Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t properly form until the child reaches 3-5 years of age.
0BRy TIL Thomas Paine proposed a “Citizen’s Dividend” upon the principle that the natural world is the common property of all persons so all citizens receive regular payments (dividends) from revenue raised by leasing or taxing the monopoly of valuable land and other natural resources…
b6jQ0 TIL that between 1230 and 1561, many English towns had a street called “Gropecunt Lane,” named after prostitution centered on those areas. Many of these streets have since been renamed to “Grape Lane.”
VlWm TIL that smelling coffee or coffee beans acts as an olfactory palate cleanser. This means that when you smell something after smelling coffee, you get the full effect, and there is no nasal fatigue.