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TIL the world’s largest environmental organization makes millions of dollars off of an oil well on its land in Texas. The area is supposedly set aside for conservation, to protect one of the most critically endangered birds in America. The birds have now disappeared from the site.

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jND4M TIL - Nobel Peace Prize nominees included Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini
KOAv6 TIL that Dysthanasia is the opposite of Euthanasia and happens when a person is kept alive artificially despite being terminally ill without regard to their quality of life.
b9RV4 TIL of Grigori Perelman, a Russian mathematician who proved the Poincaré conjecture (one of the Millennium Prize problems). He later quit his job, turned down the $1 million prize as well as the Fields Medal, and is thought to have withdrawn from the field of mathematics entirely.
b6WKE TIL that Phil Collins originally wrote “You’ll Be In My Heart” as a lullaby for his daughter, Lily Collins.
d8oK7 TIL of Unpaired Words, negative words whose positive forms are rare or no longer in use. For example, the opposites of 'overwhelmed', 'innocent', and 'inert' are the rarely heard 'whelmed', 'nocent', and 'ert'.