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TIL despite being depicted on California's flag, the California grizzly bear has been extinct since 1924.

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D6WJ TIL David Bowie played a huge role in Chris Hadfield’s ‘Space Oddity’ cover from orbit being re-uploaded to YouTube after it was removed by the site for copyright reasons
xGN7 TIL the Greek physician Hippocrates thought that a malignant tumour surrounded by swollen blood vessels reminded him of a crab in sand calling the mass karkinos, the Greek word for crab, hence the origin of the name cancer.
1akbV TIL that the Danube begins in the Black Forest and ends in the Black Sea.
oRnVo TIL Astatine is the rarest naturally-occurring element on Earth with even its "most-stable" isotope having a half-life of around 8 hours! A sample of the pure element cant be assembled as it would be instantly vaporised by the heat of its own Radioactivity! ( Astatos is Greek word for 'unstable' )
woGGW TIL that during the United States occupation of Haiti in 1914, the equivalent of over $14m in today’s money in gold assets, were seized from Haiti and transferred to National City Bank in New York.