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TIL 75% of babies born prematurely die from hypothermia in the developing world. The incubators sold in Western countries cost up to $20,000 and require electricity. Embrace is a nonprofit that created a baby incubator that costs only $200 and works without electricity.

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4XoRg TIL about Ligertown, an incident in Idaho where about 50 sheriff’s deputies, SWAT teams, Fish and Game officers and Idaho State troopers killed 15 lions whose escape from a chicken wire-enclosed game compound for lions, tigers and crossbred "ligers″ forced parents to keep their children indoors.
kJ7YW TIL that the highest diversity of bee species is found in deserts and other temperate dry regions as opposed to tropical forests. So there are a lot more bee species in the US southwest than in the Amazon, and a lot more in Turkey than in the Congo.
awAl0 TIL That according to scientists the South China Tiger is "functionally extinct" as one has not been spotted in the wild for over 25 Years, however a banker known as Stuart Bray has 19 of them held in captivity at the Laohu Valley Reserve in South Africa.
mx6Vp TIL that the animals commonly referred to as "Buffalo" in North America are actually not Buffalo at all, they're Bison. True Buffalo look much more similar to long-horned cattle.
Z850Q TIL that Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert ran for Congress in 1982 and won, but died of cancer before taking his seat. He publicly disclosed his illness during the campaign.