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TIL the bald eagle hasn’t been considered an endangered species since 2007.

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M7rAB TIL about Sophia-the first robot to receive legal citizenship of a country. She was granted Saudi Arabian citizenship in 2017.
R77Dl TIL in 1992 President G.H.W. Bush got sick during a state event in Japan and vomited into the lap of Japans Prime Minister Miyazawa.
Lk1dr TIL of "promession", an elaborate decomposition system that takes a body, freezes it, vibrates it to dust, and dehydrates it, to result in the most eco-friendly form of burial ever devised.
nKQB TIL: Shelly Miscavige, wife of head Scientologist David Miscavige, has been ‘missing’ since 2007
eppG6 TIL about Grave, a unit of measurement used in the first metric system and predecessor to the kilogram. It was defined as the mass as a cubic decimetre of distilled water at 0 °C.