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TIL The migratory monarch butterfly known for its spectacular annual journey across the Americas was officially declared Endangered in 2022.

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0dEyj TIL Mr.Beast recorded a video in 2015 to his future self released in 2020. He had 8,000 subscribers at the time hoping he'd have 1,000,000 by the time the video went public.
Xa78 TIL the 2014 film “Nightcrawler” was inspired by a photographer named Arthur Fellig, who in the 1930’s, installed a police-band shortwave radio in his car and maintained a complete darkroom in the trunk. He’d often beat authorities to the scene, then sell his gory photos to the tabloids.
EgWx TIL The Catholic Church believed the first people to use Arabic Numerals were practicing magic and sentenced them to life in prison
6rVX TIL that Prince started YesWeCode.org to help low income kids learn to be programmers.
xKew TIL that the President of France is also the Co-Prince of Andorra. Therefore, Andorra is the only country in the world that has a democratically elected monarch.