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TIL that The closest living relative of hippopotamuses are whales

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P8nL TIL: there is an island where pre-Neolithic people still live. They attack anybody that tries to meet them.
KANE TIL A man in China has kept himself alive with a homemade dialysis machine for 13 years.
WkM5B TIL that 71 percent of Americans age 17 to 24 are ineligible to join the military, primarily because they are too overweight or too poorly educated, or they have a record of serious crime or drug abuse.
OQgg TIL in a Playboy interview, John Wayne said “Our so-called stealing of this country from (Native Americans) was just a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”
nWNb TIL that when Susan Kuhnhausen, an ER nurse, was confronted in her house by a crab-hammer wielding hitman, she struggled with him and wound up choking him to death. The hitman had been sent by her ex-husband.