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TIL that Rwanda’s population fo lions was destroyed in the aftermath of the 1994 Genocide as national parks were turned into camps for displaced people and the remaining animals were poisoned by cattle herders

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Z8OBB TIL that Horace de Vere Cole would wander the streets with a cow's teat poking through the fly of his trousers; once he judged he had caused optimum outrage he would cut off the offending protrusion with a pair of scissors.
kmZ4 TIL that black swans are an actual type of swan, not just a rare color variant
0w7Q1 TIL Before he was famous, Steve Martin was a contestant on The Dating Game.
yVLwl TIL the existence of black holes was first proposed in 1783 by John Michell. We weren’t able to capture an image of a black hole until 2019.
0wB5L TIL John Edward Allen, who was hired by Ozzy Osbourne as a "personal dwarf" in 1981-83 and renamed by Ozzy as "Ronnie" to mock Ronnie James Dio, also acted in movies such as Blade Runner. He was hung on stage every night as part of the show. He died of an overdose at the age of 49.