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TIL little penguins in Australia are protected by snipers, to prevent poaching

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Eg9nP TIL: Slaves made up 65% of South Carolina's population in 1720.
x61Yo TIL of the field recordings of Alan Lomax, a folklorist. He travelled recording a wide spectrum of musical performances, stories, jokes and personal narratives for the US Library of Congress in the 1930s. His life's work is now digitally archived.
0wJeR TIL that in the 2002 "It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie", the Twin Towers are shown still standing in an alternate reality where Kermit was never born. This could imply that, somehow, Kermit was responsible for 9/11.
E1bVV TIL police are called to Walmart stores 3-4 times as often as they are to other big-box retailers like Target. 25% of all arrests in St. Petersburg, FL and 92% of larceny calls in Granite Falls, NC are attributed to single Walmart locations in each city.
Okda TIL after several overburdened hospitals turned away a 22yo woman’s 4 Ebola-stricken family members, the Liberian woman fashioned protective equipment out of plastic garbage bags and treated them herself for 2 weeks. Three of the Four family members survived.