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TIL about Myron Rolle who enrolled in medical school and eventually became a neurosurgeon after being cut by the Pittsburgh Steelers

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69Wx7 TIL Between 2002 and 2010 poachers killed 4,000 elephants, 95% of the population in Chad's Zakouma’s National Park. Now elephants and wildlife are flourishing there again after Chad invited a non-profit organization to help restore and manage it
BrvJk TIL that the retirement age for men in the USA was set at 65 in 1935. The average life expectancy at the time was 61.7 years old.
Y7VGB TIL that sugar isn’t directly bad for your teeth, but rather it creates the perfect environment for bacteria in your mouth to thrive, and they produce acid as a byproduct which IS bad for your teeth.
R71Y9 TIL that the United States has "more coal than the rest of the world has oil."
4kdQo TIL a naturally-occurring nuclear fission reactor once formed in an African uranium ore deposit and ran for thousands of centuries.