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TIL that elephant poaching has steadily decreased in certain African countries causing elephant populations to slowly begin rising.

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6X9W TIL Finland’s nuclear waste bunker Onkalo is built to last intact till the year 102,120. Work began in the year 2004 and it will be closed in 2120s. This bunker will probably be one of the last remains of humankind on Earth.
w6kP TIL That in Japan they have specific sections of sidewalks textured for blind people’s canes so they know where shops, subways, and crosswalks are located.
9Ev7 TIL a Comcast employee changed a customers first name to ‘Asshole’, which appeared on letters sent to him.
619Z TIL 22% to 28% of medical students in Egypt believe that Female Genital Mutilation is acceptable.
mV6x TIL Stephen king was hit by a van not far from his home in 1999. He suffered from a collapsed lung, a broken hip,a leg broken in nine places.Afterward he and his lawyer bought the van for $1,500 and when King healed, he wailed on it with a baseball bat before sending it to be crushed at a junkyard