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TIL: Giraffes face 'silent extinction' as population shrinks nearly 40%

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8elgG TIL that the line "You gotta keep 'em separated" in The Offspring's song "Come Out and Play" came from when singer Dexter Holland worked in a biology lab. He had two steaming flasks of liquid that weren't cooling off when placed next to each other, so he thought, "I've got to keep 'em separated."
PYgjn TIL that during a Communist Party conference in 1937, following a speech by Stalin, the audience began to clap and carried on for 11 minutes, with no-one daring to be the first to stop. The first person to stop was a paper factory director who was arrested that night and sent to prison for 10 years.
9Ynp TIL that when two Japanese pole vaulters tied for silver in the 1936 Olympics, and one was awarded the bronze, they had their medals split in half back home, and got them fused as half-silver and half-bronze in a showing of friendship.
9xN7 TIL that Henry Hall, a lighthouse keeper, died when molten lead fell into his throat as he was looking up at a burning lighthouse.
oB578 TIL of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, when the Mormons killed 120-140 people of a wagon train passing through Utah