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TIL Humans almost became extinct about 70,000 yeas ago when the total population dropped below 2,000

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X0rBk TIL that the family of Colonel James E. Sabow who allegedly committed suicide might have actually been murdered due to his findings of Drug trafficking operations on Marine Corps Base El Toro in 1991.
neQ9d TIL that the main reason why Mickey, Donald, Pinocchio & other early Disney characters wear gloves is because it was easier to animate them. Walt Disney told his biographer that the gloves also exist for another reason “We didn’t want him to have mouse hands because he was supposed to be more human”
pp1N TIL Meerkats are the most murderous known mammal, with almost 20% of meerkats being killed by one of their own. The average among all mammals is just 0.3%.
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QNDna TIL that "Hero Rats" can be used as a failsafe to check for tuberculosis at a rate of 100 samples per twenty minutes, a task that takes human microbiologist four days.