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TIL After Ben Franklin lost his 4 year old son to Smallpox, he became an advocate for Inoculation, and stated in his autobiography: “I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation.“

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lor8a TIL In the 20th century India lost more than 95% of its vulture population. The deaths are due to a medication for cows that is poisonous to the birds. The loss of vultures had increased the spread of disease and vermin populations. Also Parsi sky burials have had to be cancelled.
Dwlr TIL Cats kill an estimated 4 billion wild animals across the U.S. every year
78DDX TIL the Permian–Triassic extinction event that occurred approximately 251.9 million years ago is considered Earth's most severe known extinction event. 57% of biological families, 83% of genera, 81% of marine species and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species became extinct.
XJVQ TIL CNN had 50 people covering the aftermath of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. But assigned more then 400 to England’s royal wedding.
YYdB TIL a man spent 12 years trapped inside his body watching ‘Barney’ reruns