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

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9YQKB TIL that Homeopathy 'treatments' in the US must be labelled to say they do not work
GAYK1 TIL that car robberies are so common in Oakland, CA that some residents roll down their windows and unlock their doors to prevent damage to their vehicles.
yQpel TIL Philadelphia man David Good was reunited with his mother after traveling deep in to the Amazon, to locate her tribe. His mother, Yarima, escaped back to the Amazon 6 years after David's father had married her and brought her to Philadelphia.
nNGW TIL that Queen Victoria hated being pregnant, viewed breast-feeding with disgust, and thought newborn babies were ugly.
4LAo TIL that pencils are yellow because, in the 1890’s, the world’s best pencil graphite came from China. In China, the color yellow is associated with royalty, so American pencil manufacturers started painting their pencils yellow to indicate they contained high-quality Chinese graphite.