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TIL that there is an environmental movement that wants humans to voluntarily stop reproducing until we go extinct. Their slogan is “May we live long and die out”

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e1dn TIL that when the US government renamed a fish species from ‘slimehead’ to 'orange roughy’ it went from being relatively unknown, to becoming a threatened species within a decade.
ym6J TIL there is a Vietnamese religion that worships Joan of Arc, Shakespeare, and Muhammad. At least 4 million followers exist in Vietnam alone.
rP8y TIL There are no medics in the United States Marines, the US Navy’s Corpsmen take care of wounded Marines.
awmPy TIL the shadows on the Velociraptor in this scene in Jurassic Park are DNA nucleotide sequences