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TIL that PETA kills 89% of the animals it takes in

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OGeaX TIL George Miller conceived the film Mad Max:Fury Road in 1987, but it was in development hell for many years. He decided to pursue the film again in 2007, after the release of the animated comedy Happy Feet.
6E8Y7 TIL that Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber), Ramzi Yousef (the 1993 World Trade Center bomber), and Timothy McVeigh (the Oklahoma City bomber), all became friends in prison, and regularly discussed religion and politics until McVeigh's execution.
mE1M TIL after the release of ‘Top Gun’, the US Navy stated the number of young men who joined wanting to be Naval Aviators went up by 500 percent.
ZAy4 TIL that Reagan declared ‘War on Drugs,’ in 1982 and privatized prisons in 1983.
nWvgW TIL that unlike most animals, African wild dogs follow an age-based food sharing system where pups are given immediate access to kills, making older dogs wait before they can eat