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TIL rhino horns, tortoise shells and amber are all types of plastics.

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YXjd TIL that forks were used in China before the invention of chopsticks
E1rl7 TIL Crocodiles can survive without eating food for more then 3 years due to their effecient energy storage system
DAg TIL that Jesse Owens said “Hitler didn’t snub me–it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram,” and that Owens was cheered enthusiastically by 110,000 people in Berlin, but couldn’t even stay in the same hotels as whites in America.
yQveX TIL that Chicago PD operated an off-the-books interrogation warehouse until 2015, wherein >99% of cases lawyers were shut out and detainees were denied access to phones. The precinct refuses to release reports between 1995-2004, as dealing with the physical copies would be "too burdensome"
MBR7 TIL a 12-year-old Ethiopian girl was snatched by four men on her way home from school. A week later, three lions encountered the group and chased the men off. The lions stayed with the girl without harming her, before departing as police searching for her came near.