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TIL The number of species at risk of extinction has doubled to 2 million

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GY0v7 TIL that the main protagonist from the music video ( Take On Me by A-ha ), don't live happily ever after. In the follow up song (The Sun Always Shines On Tv By A-ha.) The male protagonist starts to dematerialize in the real world and runs off into the distances and then vanishes.
9w4yM TIL in addition to cows and deer, there are prion-caused spongiform encephalopathies for minks, camels, ostriches, oryxes, nyalas, and cats
6E0XZ TIL that for the past two years it is no longer criminal in Canada to challenge somebody to a duel, accept a challenge to a duel or provoke somebody to challenge another person to a duel.
bBE4 TIL of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, who was a female Soviet Sniper with over 300 comfirmed kills. She is considered as the most successful female sniper in the world.
M7XQ8 TIL of the Window Tax, where England homes would be taxes according to the number of windows they had, leading to windows getting boarded up to avoid the excess tax.