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TIL Charles Darwin was a member of The Glutton Club at Cambridge which met weekly to eat “birds and beasts, which were before unknown to the human palate”. He also regularly ate some of the animals he discovered in his travels including puma, armadillos, and his famous giant Galapagos tortoises.

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Y7M0G 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
e0KRk TIL that the largest living organism is a honey fungus measuring 2.4 miles (3.8 km) across in the Blue Mountains in Oregon
7ryPx TIL That Sean Bean was afraid of flying in Helicopters during the filming of Lord of the Rings. The Crew would look down at 7:30 AM and see him fully dressed in costume climbing cliffs all by himself.
p8x1Q TIL that after their victory at the Battle of Marathon, the Greeks carved a statue of Nemesis (the goddess who punishes the arrogant) out of an enormous block of marble that the Persians had brought to the battle with the intention of carving a monument to their victory over the Greeks.
MZWV TIL that the earliest voice recording (made in 1860) could not be played back until 2008