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TIL The Pyrenean ibex remains the only animal to have ever been brought back from extinction and also the only one to go extinct twice

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5VYA9 TIL about a mountain range in the Balkans called the Accursed Mountains, named for their wild and inhospitable nature.
1ae9W TIL that Stephen Colbert auditioned for the role of Screech on 'Saved by the Bell.'
JYARm TIL: An observational study of hand washing after toilet use at an Infectious Disease conference found that compliance with hand hygiene after toilet visits was 84% for conference participants, 75% for members of the public, and only 46% for hospital staff.
VM0rB TIL Virginia Woolf killed herself by filling her pockets with rocks and walking into the River Ouse
lLAr TIL that the Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, was introduced by King Sejong in the 1440s to improve literacy. The difficulty of Chinese characters favored privileged aristocrats, whereas Sejong’s phonetic alphabet allowed Koreans of all classes to learn how to read and write