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TIL The photographer who took the picture of the starving African child with a vulture waiting for her death committed suicide after 3 months. His suicide note said “I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain.“

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e0LpE TIL John Cleese refused a knighthood honor as he said the naming of a species of Wooly lemur (Avahi cleesei) was a greater honor.
wGP7 TIL No existing species of tree can grow higher than 130 meters (427 feet) as it is physically impossible for the water to rise higher due to pressure.
ErM0 TIL Moon Dust cuts through kevlar-like material and is harmful to humans, causing a disease called Moon Hay Fever
Pe8O TIL that within a few decades of the Magna Carta being put in place in England, Genghis Khan (founder of the Mongolian empire) implemented a very similar document into law, which among other things, protected the right to freedom of Religion
1dK7 TIL that Helium is named after the greek god Helios because the first evidence of it’s existence was found not on earth but in the sun during a solar eclipse in 1868. It was not formally identified on earth until 1895.