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TIL In China, killing panda is punishable by death

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nb4P TIL that Otis Day and the Knights (the fictional R&B band from Animal House) kept getting gigs after the movie’s release — and they still perform today!
MRNA TIL There is greater inequality in Manhattan today than existed in South Africa before Apartheid ended
DQ5wJ TIL that the videoclip for Despacito by Luis Fonsi has more views on YouTube than there are people in the world. It currently sits at 8.2 billion views and the estimated world population is about 8.1 billion people.
N74O1 An international team of scientists sequenced a protein crystal located in the midgut of cockroaches in 2016. The reason? Scientists think cockroach milk could be the next superfood.
JYAAl TIL about Abram Petrovich Gannibal, an African child kidnapped to Russia as a gift for Peter the Great. The tsar freed him and raised him as his godson. Gannibal became a Major-General and the Governor of Reval. He is the great-grandfather of Alexander Pushkin, considered the greatest Russian poet.