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

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4XANJ TIL the term 'Toxic Masculinity' was first coined in the 1980's by the Jungian MythoPoetic Men's Movement, who believed that because most men no longer perform masculine rituals, men have mutated into destructive, hypermasculine chauvinists, or, in the opposite direction, have become too feminized.
QJYjX TIL: Antarctica was discovered only 201 years ago! 200 years ago, people discovered Antarctica – and promptly began profiting by slaughtering some of its animals to near extinction
OoEQY TIL in 1988 the Soviet government issued a decree preventing doctors from listing radiation as an illness or cause of death 2 years after the Chernobyl disaster
Zp45Q TIL in several countries, such as Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands, it is considered natural for humans to try and escape jail, so escapees who do not break any other laws are not charged and no extra time is added to their sentence.
xAZD TIL an EPA Agent successfully pretended to be working for the CIA for 12 years so he could take days off without limitation, get reimbursed for vacations, and otherwise defraud the EPA.