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TIL that 550,000 female fetuses a year are selectively aborted in India in a practice referred to as Female Foeticide.

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59GD TIL that although pandas eat bamboo almost exclusively, they actually have the digestive systems of carnivores
PYaGG TIL straight plastic bag bans implemented in Chicago and Hawaii resulted in many stores just upping the thickness of their plastic bags to 2.25 mils to cross the threshold that separates “single-use” plastic from “reusable” plastic bags under many bag laws.
p8Rj8 TIL of a poodle that fell 13 stories, hitting and killing and elderly woman. A second woman was killed after a bus hit her as she came to see the incident, and a man died of a heart attack after witnessing the events.
kjJd TIL that Princeton researchers successfully turned a live cat into a functioning telephone in 1929
Xx9R TIL that a US submarine placed a wire tap on Russian undersea cables to monitor secret military communications during the Cold War, and only found the cable after a week of searching because of a sign on the shore saying “Cable Here. Do Not Anchor.”