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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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awBVM TIL Jon Stewart appeared on CNN's "Crossfire" in 2004 and criticized how damaging it was to society, becoming one of the main reasons it was cancelled three months later.
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