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TIL that we are living in the 6th Extinction Event and that humans are credited with causing it.

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0d1KL TIL during a hunting trip in 1913 the race car driver Camille Jenatzy hid behind a bush, made animal noises and was promptly shot by a friend, he died in a car on the way to hospital, fulfilling his own prediction that he would die in a Mercedes
VBd7Z TIL The President of France appoints the Archbishop of Stroudsburg and the Bishop of Metz. This is due to the fact that despite France being a secular nation, Roman Catholicism is still supported by French law and publicly subsidized in the region of Alsace-Moselle.
GAmK1 TIL Quisling is a term used in English to mean a citizen or politician of an occupied country who collaborates with an enemy occupying force – or more generally as a synonym for traitor or collaborator. The word originates from surname of the Norwegian war-time leader Vidkun Quisling.
dDRDr TIL that the Cat costume Mike Myers wore in the 2003 live-action Cat in the Hat film was made out of wool and human hair.
RWX9 TIL twenty years ago Australian aboriginal suicide rates were equivalent to the national rate but now they are three fold, and in some regions spates of suicide have reached 100 times the national average.