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TIL that “Extinct” Pygmy Elephants Have Been Found Living on Borneo

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pYBBN TIL : Richard Pryor co-wrote Blazing Saddles and was slated to play Sheriff Bart, but the Studio balked due to his drug use.
XEpwk TIL In November 2012, Salvador Alvarenga went fishing off the coast of Mexico. Two days later, a storm hit and he made a desperate SOS. It was the last anyone heard from him – for 438 days
LkZpp TIL: A study on workplace murders was conducted in 2015. Women workers were 20x more likely to be killed by a domestic partner and 20% more likely to be killed by another coworker than men. However, men were more likely to be killed by robbers, escaped inmates, and customers.
Egoyo TIL In China, smuggling a Giant Panda carries at least a 10-year sentence and confiscation of property; under grave circumstances, life sentence or even death sentence together with a total confiscation of property shall be applied.
0LWN TIL that the first Sherlock Holmes book “A Study in Scarlet” was the first work of fiction to mention a magnifying glass being used as an investigative tool and is the reason we still connect this item with detectives today