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TIL in africa giant rodents are being trained to help detect and combat wildlife trafficking.

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WbZY TIL that the US government gave VW $51 million in subsidies for “clean Diesels”.
l7jJN TIL Japanese and Korean people refer to staplers as the "Hotchkiss" (ho-chi-ki-s[e]u) because staplers were first imported to the region in the early 20th century by the E.H. Hotchkiss Company
4XVLN TIL the last words of American murderer Robert Alton Harris. “You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the grim reaper.”
WZn8 TIL since the SNES wasn’t powerful enough to emulate a GameBoy in software, the Super GameBoy actually contained all the hardware of a regular gameboy except the screen
RYy6 TIL Star Trek has superlative examples of how organizations should run efficient and effective meetings.