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TIL: An ‘extinct’ tree frog has been rediscovered in India after 137 years

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1O4 TIL that when she was five years old, Tina Fey was slashed in the face with a knife by a random stranger.
e05W5 TIL that 48% of American adults have cardiovascular disease.
Yjgv TIL scientists studied a parrot for 30 years and found he had the intelligence of a five-year-old human. He had a vocabulary of 150 words and could ask for a banana. If he was offered a nut instead, he would stare in silence, ask for the banana again, or take the nut and throw it at the researcher.
rNODw TIL about James Dallas Egbert III - a 16-year old college student at MSU who experienced an episode of self-harm and disappeared for several days. A family-retained private investigator believed Dungeons & Dragons was responsible, & began a nationwide panic sweeping both country & gaming industry.
OoRaX TIL that botanistic David douglas, after whom the Douglas fir was named, died by falling into a bull pit under mysterious circumstances at the age of only 35. Prior to that he identified over 200 important plant species and is still a hero to botanists today.