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TIL that 29% of San Francisco’s air pollution comes from China

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OGnB7 TIL that while the game "BINGO" is centuries old, the WORD "bingo" has no real known origin and is not found before the 1920s.
OoOOX TIL that in 1985, Dian Fossey, a renowned primatologist who fought to protect gorillas and led anti-poaching patrols, was found hacked to death with a machete.
e7Yn Til that the Human population dropped to as low as 40 breeding adult couples
R7Pb9 TIL - UK officials once discussed resettling 5.5m Hong Kong Chinese in Northern Ireland during the height of The Troubles
LQxov TIL a Korean crown prince (posthumous name Sado) went murderously insane whilst he was regent, torturing, assaulting and killing courtiers and servants on a whim. He was executed by his father King Yeongjo by being locked in a rice chest and starved to death.