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Til that an entire species of bird went extinct because of ww2.

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E11v7 TIL India Has a Spa for Elephants; Elephant Camp at Punnathoor Cotta in Kerala is spread across 11.5 acres of land and houses 58 elephants – largest number of elephants in a very small stretch of land
VMkxk TIL: Florida has a law called Sunshine law. Which allows meetings, records, votes, deliberations and other official actions to be available to the public. Which is why you always hear about crazy things happening there. The local news can provide details of crimes committed that other states cannot.
OGLRY TIL that the Roman emperor Caracalla ordered the city of Alexandria to be plundered, and it's prominent citizens be massacred, only because of a satire that mocked Caracalla's usurpation of power.
6EKZQ TIL that there is a Chinese MMA fighter challenging and taking out Chinese martial arts "masters"
gMoRy TIL that in 1997, CircuitCity developed DIVX, an alternative to DVDs, that could only be viewed for 48 hours before paying addition cost to continue viewing using phone lines to detect whether disc were still valid, it was estimated to be a $337 million dollar loss