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TIL the global population of humanity's ancestors once fell from 100k to only 1,000 individuals

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VGB4 TIL in 2002, Bruce Willis’ daughter suggested giving Girl Scout cookies to troops. He bought 12,000 boxes and delivered them to troops stationed throughout the Middle East.
78RDZ TIL there is a crab that was named after David Hasselhoff's piece - the Hoff crab.
EJjw TIL Engineers are three to four times more likely to become violent terrorists than their peers in finance, medicine or the sciences. The next most radicalizing graduate degree, in a distant second, was Islamic Studies.
jpva TIL when the Platypus was first cataloged and discovered, it was dismissed as a prank by the explorers or a fake animal created by sewing two together, because nobody could believe it existed.
w96M TIL a Canadian native and animal trapper called Grey Owl gained prominence in the early 1900s as a respected environmental conservationist. Upon his death it was revealed that he was actually a transplanted Englishman named Archibald Belaney, who had been colouring his skin and dying his hair black.