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TIL Yao Ming is an ambassador for elephant conservation

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4976 TIL 1208 wooden crates filled with gold were shipped out of Poland in 1939. To this day, no one knows who received it.
nAv9 TIL Yao Ming was bred and raised by the Chinese government to be a basketball star
VBLo0 TIL that if chess wasn't separated into men's and women's rankings the world's #1 rated female player wouldn't even rank in the top 100 players worldwide.
9Yrmr TIL that in the early 1990s, New York City's Metro Transit Authority had a mascot for their new MetroCard service (that replaced tokens) - the Caardvark