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TIL Zakouma National Park, Chad, is the closest “Big Five” destination to Europe. Six black rhinos were flown 3,000 miles from South Africa to settle in the park in 2018 since their species was wiped out by poachers. All the rhinos were dehorned to deter poachers, and electronically tagged

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p4OO TIL that on 4 Dec of the Year 292,277,026,596, 64-bit versions of the Unix time stamp will cease to work. This is not anticipated to pose a problem, however, as this is considerably longer than the time it would take the Sun to theoretically expand to a red giant and swallow the earth.
X0ZJQ TIL while most people think of elephants and rhinoceros when it comes to poaching for their ivory, hippopotamus are also a victim. Hippos may not have tusks or horns, but their front teeth are made of ivory, which is even harder than an elephants. This greatly contributes to their endangered status.
PLLO TIL Joseph Stalin’s son Yakov, shot himself because of Stalin’s harshness toward him, but survived. Afterwards, Stalin said “He can’t even shoot straight”
By9W TIL in 1901 a pregnant Madame Bobin fell ill and “died”. Later, when her body was exhumed they found that not only had Bobin been buried alive, but she gave birth while inside the coffin before eventually asphyxiating.
P1XNw TIL that Tom Cruise really wanted to play Rorschach in Watchmen 2009. Zack Snyder wanted him to play Ozymandias, but it didn’t pan out. He thought Cruise was too distracting to play Rorschach