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TIL that if you are a driver in the United Kingdom you are required by the law to stop and report to the police if you run over a dog, a horse, a cattle, a pig, a goat, a sheep, a donkey and a mule, but not if you run over a deer, a cat, a badger or a fox.

R5d1w TIL the 10th richest school in the United States is the Kamehameha High Schools in Hawaii, with an endowment of $14.7b, it beats out 11th place, Columbia University, by more than a billion dollars.
GYam7 TIL there is a Russian video games news show "Ot vinta" that have started airing in 1995 and ran till 1998. They have continued making episodes through the years with the same hosts and are still going. The same two guys in Russia reviewed the first DOOM in 1995 and DOOM Eternal in 2020.
rNWWW TIL That Najin is one of the two remaining northern white rhinos in the world, protected round-the-clock by armed guards against poachers. Both Najin & Fatu are female, and this makes the subspecies functionally extinct.
KO8gR TIL At its peak, the Salton Sea was drawing 1.5 million visitors annually, more than Yosemite. At one point, it was also was the most productive fishery in California.
Z8yAD TIL The Beatles' set off on their 1st World Tour without an unexpectedly sick Ringo. Session drummer Jimmie Nicol replaced him for eight performances before fading into obscurity. The whirlwind experience was a mixed bag for Nicols, who later said "I see why so many famous people kill themselves."