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TIL that the Chinchilla is critically endangered.

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GYRn4 TIL that Bertha Benz became the first person to drive a car over more than a short distance when she took her husband's new invention without his knowledge and drove up to her mother's house to prove that the invention will be successful once it's shown to be useful
XlBD TIL Pope Francis used to be a nightclub bouncer
Oa8L TIL last year the Star Princess, a Princess cruises ship passed by 3 men drifting in a small boat with no motor in the open sea. The captain confirmed he saw the men through his telescope and then did nothing to help. The boat was later found by the Ecuadorean coast guard with only one survivor.
a8YKA TIL that in the 1860s when the US was in Civil War, the French Emperir Napoleon III tried to place an Emperor in Mexico. After th US Civil War ended, members of the conservative Confederacy went into Mexico to support the Emperor while the rest of the US supplied arms to the liberal resistance.
KOneR TIL that Steve Englehart, the co-creator of Mantis, a character popularized in the MCU, wasn't happy with her portrayal in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies as he felt it strayed too far from the character he made, which was a telapathic martial artist.