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KOG4w TIL: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, discoverer of the X-Rays, chose the name himself and didn't want them to be named after him. It is used worldwide with exception to his native Germany where they are call Röntgenstrahlen (Röntgen-Ray)
j6Z6Q TIL In the early 1980s, three species of Gyps vultures (the white-rumped vulture, the long-billed vulture and the slender-billed vulture) had a combined estimated population of 40 million in South Asia, but as of 2017, the total population numbered only 19,000 (6,000, 12,000, and 1,000 respectively)
DvAD TIL baby & juvenile dinosaurs have been mistakenly labeled as whole new dinosaur species because their younger skeletons differ so much from their adult form.
RD09 TIL Welfare currently pays more than a minimum-wage job in 35 states, even after accounting for the Earned Income Tax Credit, and in 13 states it pays more than $15 per hour.
X0Pyr TIL that prior to 2006, Canada Border Services Agency agents were not armed and were not allowed to arrest and detain individuals at the border for non-customs related violations of Canadian law.