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

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LkldZ TIL the English word weird originally meant 'having the power to control fate', which is why Shakespeare named his witches in Macbeth The Weird Sisters. Later depictions of them dressed in odd and strange ways led to the current definition of the word.
VBAmm TIL recent evidence challenges the belief that hunting in prehistoric societies was primarily carried out by men. It is now thought that these societies developed tools, such as the spear thrower, which facilitated hunting by both women and men by reducing the importance of body size and strength.
M7YY8 TIL General Electric was one of the first members of Dow Index in 1895, and the last to remain there until 2018.
0dZYj TIL that the dots on the Dominos logo symbolise their first three restaurants. They originally planned to add a dot for each new restaurant but the company grew too fast.
wLOd1 TIL Even though FRIENDS went off-air 14 years ago, today Warner Bros. makes about $1 billion each year from the show through syndication revenue. The six main actors who get 2% of the revenue take home $20 million each every year without doing anything.