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TIL about conservation-induced extinction, where attempts to save a critically endangered species directly cause the extinction of another.

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x6lxB TIL General Motors created an electric car in the 90s to comply with California clean air regulations, after it proved far more popular than expected they shut down the program and against the protests of their customers reclaimed all the existing EVs and crushed them and buried them in the desert.
9w8O6 TIL that every champion of the FIFA Under 20 World Cup since 2007 has failed to qualify for the following edition of the tournament.
v1ExR TIL Mark Zuckerberg has an AI assistant name Jarvis who is voiced by Morgan Freeman.
Oodwa TIL that Smokey Bear's name was inspired by "Smokey" Joe Martin, a New York firefighter who suffered burns and blindness during a 1922 rescue. Also, the symbol of the U.S. Forest Service is actually just "Smokey Bear," not "Smoke the Bear." The "the" was added to help the rhythm of a 1952 song.
GMQ1 TIL magic mushrooms may give users trippy experiences by creating a hyperconnected brain. The active ingredient in the psychedelic drug, psilocybin, seems to completely disrupt the normal communication networks in the brain, by connecting “brain regions that don’t normally talk together.”