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TIL that the US has a worse infant mortality rate than not only the European Union as a whole but almost every country within the European Union.

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gyKb TIL of the Greenland shark, that eats polar bears, and can live up to 500 years old.
ZGkv TIL in 1996 a female gorilla rescued a 3 year-old boy after he fell 18 feet into a primate enclosure at the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois which housed 6 other gorillas. The gorilla, who was carrying her own infant on her back, cradled the boy and took him to a door where paramedics could retrieve him.
WkNWN TIL George Clooney once gave 14 of his closest friends each $1M in cash, and even paid the taxes on it for them - with one condition: they all had to take it or none of them got it.
gRdy TIL of the Gombe Chimpanzee War, a violent conflict between two groups of chimpanzees, the Kasakela and the Kahama, in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania, that lasted from 1974 to 1978.
Vg78 TIL that McDonald’s restaurants on Canada’s east coast have a seasonal ‘McLobster’ sandwich.