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TIL the 2010 Global Tiger Initiative summit in Russia pledged $330 million donor dollars for tiger conservation. Four years later, no financial help ever reached the Ussuriskii Nature Preserve, home to some of the last remaining Siberian tigers.

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aB7b TIL that three of the actors who played Nazis on the WWII sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes” were German Jews who had escaped from Nazi Germany. Two of them spent time in concentration camps, and another French Jewish actor also spent time in a camp.
0wJYL TIL of Ingeborg Rapoport. In 2015, 74 years after being denied her Ph.D by the Nazis for being Jewish, she successfully defended her dissertation and received her doctorate from the University of Hamburg at the age of 102, making her the oldest person ever to receive one.
9KXQ TIL: In Wales in 1950 a man was wrongfully executed for the murder of his wife and daughter. It is the reason capital punishment is outlawed in the UK today
5Yjmr TIL about "three-quarter siblings": siblings who are genetically half way between full siblings and half siblings. This happens if they share the same father but different mothers who are sisters, or the same mother but different fathers who are brothers.
WkDML TIL that in 1937 Fred Morrison got inspiration to create a plastic flying disc after initially throwing a pie pan from the Frisbie Pie Company. Twenty years later, the disc was named a Frisbee, as a nod to the pie company.