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TIL Steve Irwin was just the second person reported killed by a stingray in Australian waters since 1945.

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nEVd TIL a skeleton, only 6-8 inches long was discovered outside a Chilean ghost town. It was declared to be human, and to have lived to be as old as 8 years. A definite explanation for it’s size, mutations, and origin has not been found.
NeeQ TIL that in 1946 the U.S. Public Health Service infected 1,000 Guatemalan citizens with STD’s for experiments.
v1jg7 TIL the photo of Pope John Paul II torn to pieces by Sinead O’Connor on SNL in 1992 was not a prop: "The photo itself had been on my mother's bedroom wall since the day the fucker was enthroned in 1978.”
wop4W TIL scientists recovered DNA from the extinct miniature elephant on Sicily. Two different species of miniature elephants evolved separately on the same island. The smallest one was a meter tall and weighed about 300 kgs. The other was about 2 meters and 1,000 kgs.
4bZ6 TIL: Speedy Gonzales is a very popular cartoon character in Latin America. The Hispanic-American rights organization League of United Latin American Citizens called Speedy Gonzales a cultural icon.