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TIL: Howard Buffet, son of Billionaire Warren Buffet's, has donated untold millions in wildlife conservation, with his largest donation being $24m in 2014 to Kruger National Park in South Africa to purchase military grade helicopters and reconnaissance drones to track illegal poaching

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NXgJM TIL that ethologist John B. Calhoun created "rat utopias" in order to conduct over-population experiments between 1958 and 1962. Ultimately, the experiments ended in societal collapse.
ne6XG TIL about Astroturfing, the practice of masking something to make it seem like it's a grass roots movement inside a country or area when it's actually being controlled by outside sources
4Oa5 TIL there is a World Swastika Rehabilitation Day, where “the goal is to return the swastika’s true meaning of peace and harmony to this ancient symbol regretfully hijacked by the Nazis”
x6k1g TIL of Dr. Jochem Hoyer, a German transplantation surgeon who argued in favour of altruistic organ donations. After a colleague criticized him for praising "living donors as long as it is NOT you who has to donate" Hoyer donated a kidney to an unknown stranger to make a quote "very strong statement"
4L9a TIL that James Bond was modeled after a real spy named Wilfrid “Biffy” Dunderdale - MI6’s man in Paris, he was also friends with Ian Flemming and it appears that several of Dunderdale’s stories ended up in Flemming’s books.