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TIL that a census of the world’s tigers in 2016 showed an increase in the estimated number of wild tigers for the first time in a century

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R75j4 TIL the last Boer war veteran died in 1993 aged 111 years old
6MY8 TIL lego bricks can be used 37112 times before they lose their clutch power and won’t stick to other pieces anymore
5O1D TIL that the concept of “The Human Centipede” arose from a joke the director made with friends about punishing a child molester by stitching his mouth to the anus of a “fat truck driver.”
VMGK8 TIL the FBI has struggled to hire hackers because of the FBI hiring rule that the applicant must not have used marijuana during the last 3 years.
KmAJ TIL there’s a group called “Science Cheerleaders”, made up of NBA and NFL cheerleaders who also work or study in STEM fields, that encourage girls to get into science studies