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TIL Earth has lost half of its wildlife in the past 40 years

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nWBmB TIL Richard Dedekind, who worked with Georg Cantor on infinite sets, was an exceptional mathematician but he never went beyond being a high school teacher in his hometown. Cantor wanted to enter University of Berlin but was prevented from doing so as his new branch of mathematics was rejected
awm9o TIL Congress had an Office of Technology Assessment to provide members and committees with objective and authoritative analysis of the complex scientific and technical issues of the day, but was defunded in 1995
mx9yy TIL that not only has "Meet The Press" been on television since 1947, it's first moderator was a woman - Martha Rountree. She was also a producer on the show.
d8R8d TIL movie audiences blink in unison 30% of the time.
b9BGj TIL in 1932, Winston Churchill went to a hotel in Munich two days in a row to have tea with Adolf Hitler. Hitler stood him up both times