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TIL That after Steve Irwin died, a number of stingrays were found mutilated on Australian beaches. It was believed they had been killed out of some misaimed retribution by people who blamed the animal for causing his death.

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0wobL TIL raccoons wash their food yo soften it because they don’t have saliva glands.
Lood TIL that the author of ‘Where the Wild Things are’, Maurice Sendak, is gay and had a male partner for 50 years until his partner’s death. Despite this, he never told his parents, and they died still believing he was straight
KOOva TIL the Missionary Church of Kopimism is a congregation of file sharers who believe that copying information is a sacred virtue and have officially been recognized as a religious community since 2012 in Sweden.
NXkYN TIL Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize, founded the Green Belt Movement, which planted tens of millions of trees in Kenya. She faced imprisonment and violent opposition for her environmental and pro-democracy activism
5pER TIL that Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert Lincoln, was present at three out of four U.S. presidential assassinations. When asked to attend a presidential function he declined by stating “there is a certain fatality about presidential functions when I am present.”