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TIL There are only roughly 23,000 African lions left. There were roughly 300,000 in 1998

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QdDL TIL the derelict Land of Oz Theme Park has been (almost) abandoned since 1980 - it gets cleaned up and opens one weekend in October each year for Halloween
vPRBr TIL that the Spanish basketball team that won the 2000 special olympics were faking their disability
kOjnB TIL that the Sackbut likely got its name from the French terms 'sacquer' and 'bouter', which describe the motions of pushing and pulling used while playing the instrument.
pY7n8 TIL I learned about the State Partnership Program (SPP), a program in which U.S states partner up with one or two foreign countries by sending their respective National Guards to assist with training and humanitarian aid (Ex: California and Ukraine, Illinois and Poland, Texas and Egypt, etc).
lo5Va TIL that Dolly Parton's family was so poor that the doctor who brought her into the world was paid with a sack of cornmeal