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TIL scientists achieved the first-ever rhino IVF pregnancy, offering new hope for saving the nearly extinct northern white rhino.

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looY5 TIL that during his 2004 tour, David Bowie was stalked by someone in a pink rabbit suit; Bowie shrugged it off: "I thought, 'Hey, it's rock'n'roll. It's just a 5ft 3in bunny.'"
Y791B TIL the Summer Olympic Games featured fine arts competitions from 1912 until 1948. Artists could compete in the categories of architecture, painting, sculpture, literature and music.
ve6D TIL that drying your hands with paper towel will reduce the bacterial count by 45 - 60% on your hands. However, using a hand dryer will increase the bacteria on your hands by up to 255% because it blows out bacteria already living in the, conveniently, warm moist environment.
NxQe TIL that the Pyramids of Giza were originally covered in white limestone
kOgXg TIL the phrase survival of the fittest is popularly wrongly attributed to Charles Darwin. It was coined by a philosopher called Herbert Spencer seven years before Darwin's publication of his theory of natural history, The Origin of the Species.