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TIL Shenzhou 11 was China's sixth crewed space mission, and its longest to date, at 33 days. Commander Jing celebrated his 50th birthday while in orbit

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yYXX TIL that conservationists in South Africa are infusing a special red dye into the horns of live rhinos. The mixture renders the horn completely useless to poachers trying to sell it commercially, and is also toxic for human consumption.
X9RE TIL when Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was trapped in a coma, he was unresponsive until a doctor tried asking, “Can you hear me, Bugs?” Blanc responded weakly, “Myeeeeh. What’s up doc?”
5YKWR TIL that between 1958 and 1967 Charles Lindbergh (born 1902) secretly fathered seven children with three women in Germany. He would visit the children once or twice a year but used the alias Careu Kent and they did not learn his true identity until a decade after his death.
oQM7 TIL the actress who played Padma Patil in the Harry Potter films was beaten and threatened with death by her family for dating outside her religion
9Y0ym TIL that free-ranging domestic cats are the top human-caused threat to wildlife in the United States, killing an estimated 1.3 to 3.7 billion birds and 6.3 to 22.3 billion mammals annually, according to a 2013 study