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TIL that they’ve put armed rangers on guard 24/7 to protect the last male northern white rhino left on Earth

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d74B TIL The First Star Wars Book Was Published Six Months Before the Film Released.
p8pwp TIL about Dorothy Kilgallen, a journalist who claimed to have inside information about the death of JFK. She was drafting a chapter about JFK's death in her book when in 1965, she was found dead in her apartment under suspicious circumstances. All copies of Kilgallen's drafts were never found.
NkEN TIL that you can have seizures all your life and never know it. They are Temporal Lobe seizures and are referred to auras and include a sense of deja vu or unexplained sense if dread.
MevwV TIL infamous cult leader Jim Jones poisoned his followers with Flavor Aid (not Kool-Aid); earlier, he'd been awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award for his progressive integrationist views.
woZM TIL a company called Myriad Genetics holds a patent on some cancer genes. Because of this nobody else is allowed to do research with them.