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TIL 80% of all lion cubs will die before reaching two years old, when they become skilled hunters, due to the fierce competition for food.

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xJv5 TIL Gary Burghoff, who played Radar O'Reilly on MASH, has a visibly deformed left hand, which ironically would have made him unfit for military service. They tried to hide it throughout the series’ run by having Radar hold a clipboard or other hand-obscuring prop in virtually all his scenes
16Dp4 Today I learned dinosaur food still exists
epND TIL When adjusted to inflation, John D. Rockefeller is the richest man in the history of the world, with a net worth 10 times more than Bill Gates’.
Z8XeG TIL Jellyfish are considered plankton because they cannot swim against the current
OOYY TIL That the man responsible for leaded petrol, Tomas Midgley Jr, “had more impact on the environment than any other single organism in Earth’s history”