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TIL North Korea depends on human feces as fertilizer, they put annual mandatory quotas, and people often steal from each other to fill their feces quota

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1aRVP TIL that the extinct Carolina parakeet may have become poisonous from eating toxic seeds, because cats were noted to die after eating the birds
xr9k TIL Elephant populations aren’t the only ones being threatened by unsustainable poaching. Elephant poachers are also targeting vultures. it is becoming increasingly common for poachers to poison the carcass of elephants they hunt, so that the circling birds don’t give away the location of the kill.
W7Eo9 TIL that a Photographer was rewarded 1.2 Million USD because a Bird Control Company used his Picture of a Dove without Permission although the Company had hired him for the Picture in the first place. They had continued to use it anyway outside the original contractual Purpose.
o18W TIL that chimps in the wild will occasionally steal human infants and eat them.
VMNQQ TIL Alaska Congressman Nick Begich won re-election in 1972, despite having been declared missing in a plane crash three weeks before.