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TIL Devil Facial Tumour Disease is a cancer affecting Tasmanian Devils. It wiped out 95% of affected colonies between 1996 and 2015. The devils already had a gene which fought the tumour, but its frequency increased with natural selection. Devil populations now survive in disease-stricken areas.

OGaKe TIL Christians can’t eat shellfish
vGVx TIL the CIA was responsible for overthrowing the democratically elected government of Iran in 1953.
lnoG TIL that Nintendo provided service support for the NES console for over 24 years
b6107 TIL a Tsar’s nephew may have accidentally caused the biggest non-nuclear explosion in history
8aE54 TIL Earth is the only known planet where fire can burn. No other planet has enough oxygen.