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TIL Approximately 73 to 100 million sharks are killed annually worldwide just for their fins. Primarily driven by the demand for shark fins as an ingredient of a status symbol soup.

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1amPD TIL ‘Glass Cliff’ is a phenomenon where women are more likely to be in leadership roles during times of crisis, causing them to have higher chance of failure.
J75l TIL giant camels roamed Canada’s High Arctic about 3.5 million years ago
7rgm7 TIL Dark roast coffee has less caffeine than light roast coffee. The coffee beans lose more caffeine the more they are roasted.
NXvjE TIL that a Pokemon card with the move “Birthday Surprise”, a move that would deal more damage if it was the day your birthday, was banned from competitive play in order to stop people from faking their date of birth to cheat.
rRp5w TIL through the last 90 years of American history there have been only two decades with the GDP increasing every year - the 1960s and the 2010s.