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TIL Dr Jack Kevorkian AKA Dr. Death was imprisoned for 8 years after performing voluntary euthanasia on patients. His tombstone reads “He sacrificed himself for everyone’s rights.”

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78EKx TIL the Kakapo, a large green flightless parrot from New Zealand, has a life expectancy of up to a 100 years.
oLP7 TIL that, to his inauguration, Wyoming’s first Democratic governor wore shoes made from the skin of a lynched train robber
9YLZX TIL Jack Ma, the founder of one of China's most successful companies, failed primary school twice and middle school three times and also failed his university exam three times - he was also rejected by the police force and even KFC - but now is the one of the richest people in the world
8a1b4 TIL that a new microbe called a hemimastigote was found in Nova Scotia. The Hemimastix kukwesjijk is not a plant, animal, fungus, or protozoa — it constitutes an entirely new kingdom.
4XVXb TIL when hedge fund manager Eddie Lambert merged Sears and Kmart into one company he was hailed as the next Warren Buffett, capable of turning around struggling businesses. Today he is blamed for running Sears and Kmart into the ground