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TIL that there are as few as 3200 tigers left in the wild, down from 100000 at the beginning of the 20th Century.

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b9w5E TIL about a French chemist named Bertrand, who drank 5 grams of arsenic trioxide (a very poisonous substance) mixed with activated charcoal, just to demonstrate the adsorptive properties of activated charcoal and survived.
WQwL TIL powdered water exists.
69N97 TIL that there are places in England and Wales called "The Thankful Villages" - Where no men from the village died in the First World War. There are 41 of these villages.
YLKd TIL The US Chamber of Commerce isn’t a Federal Agency, but a massive lobby group.
0P15 TIL that NASA engineers and employees in the firing room celebrate successful launches with a tradition of eating beans.