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TIL that Australian beer companies changed their bottles to prevent the extinction of a species of beetle

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Y7M0G TIL that Rwanda’s population fo lions was destroyed in the aftermath of the 1994 Genocide as national parks were turned into camps for displaced people and the remaining animals were poisoned by cattle herders
E1PmP TIL bulletproof glass can be manufactured to be bulletproof one way, but allow you to shoot through it the other way.
PY6Dn TIL that speakers of the Altaic language family (Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Turkic) all share a common genetic heritage associated with the independent domesticatiom of Millet in the Far East
VB110 TIL In 1987, an 18-month-old baby named Jessica McClure fell into an abandoned well in Texas and was trapped for 58 hours. The rescue operation involved drilling a parallel shaft and then tunneling through to reach her, and it was captured on live television.
D9rv TIL that when asked what his IQ was, Stephen Hawking said “I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.”