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TIL poachers are now hacking into tags that conservationists put on endangered animals to track them.

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Z8a1a TIL in WWII there was an army of 75,000 Chinese men stationed in Burma and trained by the American military to fight Japanese occupation in mainland Asia. They called these men, X Force.
W7od TIL Cuba has a lower infant mortality rate than the USA
kODVE TIL that Jack White and Jack Black recorded a song together as Jack Gray
l7oLN TIL about the "Inventio Fortunata," a lost book that described the North Pole as a magnetic island surrounded by a giant whirlpool and four continents, believed to be written in the 14th century. Its influence on maps of the Arctic region persisted into the 16th and 17th centuries.
WBgN TIL that after the Declaration of Independence was proclaimed, colonists proceeded to tear down a statue of King George III. The lead statue was later used to make guns and bullets.