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TIL that only 4% of mammals on Earth are wild. 36% are humans, and 60% are livestock.

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9YL16 TIL in the wake of the creepy clown trend, a 2016 "Clown Lives Matter" peace walk was scheduled in Tucson to demonstrate that "clowns are not psycho killers"; but the event had to be cancelled due to multiple death threats to the clowns.
9Grr TIL in 2011, a man found a penguin covered with oil and nearly dead. He was able to save its life. Every year since, the penguin swims 5,000 miles to meet and live with him in Brazil.
JW0Q TIL of an Indian elite chef, about to take a new job in Switzerland was visiting family back home when he witnessed a starving old man eating feces for food. He was so shocked by the incident that he decided right there the he would instead spend the rest of his life feeding the poor and destitute.
DvMr TIL that wrongful convict Shareef Cousin was arrested on the basis of an anonymous tip to crimestoppers. It was later discovered that the officer who arrested him was the one who phoned in the tip and collected the 10K reward.
QNde6 TIL The reason most South and South-East Asian writing symbols are curved and rounded is that they were easier to inscribe into palm-leaves. The oldest surviving documents written in Sanskrit, dated two millennia old, were written on palm leaves.