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TIL that the great white sharks are not on top of the ocean food chain any more. There is a unknown creature taking bites out of them! 50 great white sharks this past year have shown up half eaten.

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BrWOe TIL Abram Gannibal was a black African-born Russian nobleman in the 18th century. Sold into slavery, he was eventually freed by Peter the Great and adopted into the Emperor's household as his godson. His great-great grandson is the celebrated author and poet Alexander Pushkin.
9wWB6 TIL that the French statesman Tallyrand lived for two years in the United States during the French Revolution, meeting Benedict Arnold by chance and living in the house of Aaron Burr. When Burr moved to France in self-imposed exile ten years later, Tallyrand refused to return the favour.
eVQ4 TIL During Operation Desert Storm there were nine American M1 Abrams tanks destroyed. All nine were destroyed by Americans
4XXeJ TIL the Soviets invaded Japan after they conquered Berlin and took an area bigger than France in half the time it took Germany to (3 weeks vs 6), and that the nukes were only half the reason Japan surrendered, this was the other half.
BrMb TIL A drug called DCA has been shown to work in a small clinical trial on brain cancer patients. Drug companies won’t invest in it as it is unpatentable and therefore unprofitable. Entrepreneurs banned from selling it in the US