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TIL 41,459 different species are threatened with extinction

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XEbJD TIL that there is a Fictious Athlete Hall of Fame, and Rocky Balboa is the inaugural member.
NO1b TIL that in the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake, residents of Sendai received 10-30 seconds and Tokyo 60 seconds warning from Japan’s Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) system before the major seismic waves hit. Alerts pushed to cellphones, TV broadcasts and web pages around the country.
VEPk TIL that the Griechenbeisl restaurant in Vienna, Austria has been open since 1447 and the most famous guests have been Mozart, Beethoven, and Mark Twain.
rNXWw TIL Chris Farley was originally the voice actor of Shrek and almost finished all his lines until his untimely passing in 1997
v19ar TIL that former Waffen-SS soldiers guarded Nazi War Criminals during the Nuremburg Tribunal. This was because the soldiers were Latvian conscripts and did not choose to become soldiers out of their own free will, thus clearing their names and allowing their skills to continue to be put to use.