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TIL That there are only 3200 Tigers left in the wild.

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16XZr TIL Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds artwork is made of 100 million porcelain seeds, handcrafted by 1,600+ artisans from Jingdezhen, China, a city known as the "Porcelain Capital". The seeds represent optimism during difficult times.
W7Jyo TIL of the longest pro baseball game jn history between the Rochester Red Wings and the Pawtucket Red Sox. It lasted 33 innings, with 8 hours and 25 minutes of play total.
loOw5 TIL Robin Williams protested 'It's my voice! You can't stop me.' against Disney when they tried to prevent him from voice acting in Ferngully: The Last Rainforest
ykW8 TIL: Johnny Depp never travels without his Captain Jack Sparrow costume as he often surprises kids in the hospital by showing up as Captain Jack Sparrow. Said visits usually turn into two to three hour improv sessions which Depp finds “really fun”
Wkxwo TIL that the US president's Cadillac One (aka The Beast) is equipped with 8 inch thick bulletproof doors, an oxygen system, a night-vision camera, tear-gas bombs, a shotgun, and pints of the president’s blood type.