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TIL the UN estimates that humans are causing 150+ species of animals and plants to go extinct per day, 1000x above the natural rate, making this the greatest mass extinction since the age of Dinosaurs.

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ZGNG TIL In 2006, Russia gifted the USA a 9/11 memorial monument, which was erected in Bayonne, NJ.
R7do8 TIL that the Winter Soldier’s theme contains a slowed and filtered version of Bucky’s scream during his death in Captain America: The First Avenger. You can even hear Steve yell, “Bucky!” (albeit heavily modified).
5Y5XP TIL that before humans came to Iceland, there was only one land mammal there: the Arctic fox.
YlBv TIL that a Oleg Losev, a Russian inventor sans degree, discovered the LED, as well as negative resistance oscillators, amplifiers and superheterodyne receivers…all 25 years before the transistor. His only job title was technician.
V7RZ TIL that Eddie Vedder wrote ‘Jeremy’ after reading a brief newspaper article about a 15-year-old boy in Texas who brought a gun to class and shot himself, in front of his teacher and thirty students. Vedder wanted to show how even such a dramatic gesture would only get a few words in the daily news.