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TIL 50% of the world's pigs live in China

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GXaG TIL that due to a robust immune system, Opossums are immune to a variety of deadly snake venom
R786Q TIL that Dolly Parton's father paid for her birth with a sack of oats! She is the fourth of 12 children born to Robert and Avie Lee Parton of Sevierville, Tennessee. Her family was so poor that grain was all her father had to give the doctor who delivered her!
E1K0o TIL that bacteria are becoming more tolerant of hand sanitizers, but that regular hand washing with soap is a solution: “It's the physical action of lifting and moving them off your skin, and letting them run down the drain”
M7KXa TIL about The Nature Consevancy NGO which owns and protects 119 million acres (almost the size of spain) of land with valuable biodiversity
BrvRe TIL that the earliest known depiction of Christ is a piece of Roman graffiti mockingly depicting Jesus as a crucified donkey