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TIL that in 2016, TNT rejected a TV Pilot called ‘Civil’ about a disputed election that slides into civil unrest and eventually war, because they thought it was too close to home for the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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0QWy TIL when soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo was asked to donate his cleats for a charity auction benefitting a 10-month-old child suffering from a brain disorder that can lead to 30 seizures a day, Ronaldo paid the full $83K cost of the surgery for young Erik Ortiz Cruz.
N5AJ TIL that Shell abandoned an oil well in Niger in 1977. By 2004, an estimated 20,000 barrels had leaked, polluting groundwater and ruining cropland. Clean up will cost $1bn.
69pd8 TIL: Some armadillos, like the nine-banded kind, mate in summer, but the egg delays implanting in the uterus. This pause—called embryonic diapause—lets development resume months later so babies are born in spring when survival odds are better.
n819 TIL using the most lowballed version of Drake’s Equation there are between 200 - 400 billion civilizations in the Observable Universe at any given time.
D1PbD TIL: In 1745 Hannah Snell joined the British Army by disguising herself as a man, she managed to keep her gender a secret even though she received 500 lashes and was shot in the groin. After her service she revealed her identity and was eventually awarded a military pension.