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TIL that because almost all cheetahs were wiped out by the last ice age, modern cheetahs are all practically genetic clones of each other.

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NXegM TIL that Ibrahim the Mad, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, was obsessed with large ladies and ordered his officers to search far and wide for the fattest women in the land to add to his harem
Z8ara Berezniki, in Russia's Ural mountains, is slowly disappearing into the ground. The industrial city, with a population of over 150,000, was built on top of a salt mine. Since the 1980s, huge craters have ripped the soil apart, gradually swallowing factories and offices, demolishing a school and tearing houses apart.
rNVE4 Today I learned Tim Gunn's dad was an FBI agent
JYOp4 TIL that the CIA parachuted hundreds of people into North Korea throughout the 1950s to start resistance networks and, despite never hearing from most of them again, continued to parachute more in until an inquiry in the 1970s questioned the morality of such an initiative.
Pgee TIL a dolphin named Pelorus Jack regularly guided ships in New Zealand through treacherous waters until his disappearance in 1912.