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TIL that New York City's Queens Zoo once received a lion cub despite having no lion enclosure. The cub, named Genghis Khan, was later moved to California.

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0P9N TIL Einstein mediated a hostage situation when, during the WWII aftermath, Berlin University students took several professors captive.
78WO TIL that it was illegal to commit suicide in the United Kingdom until 1961. If you tried and failed, you could be hung.
R5KV9 TIL about bog bodies—human remains found in peat bogs that are naturally mummified for thousands of years. A bog's highly acidic, oxygen-free environment preserves skin, hair, nails, organs, wool and leather clothing but dissolves bones—allowing scientists to study their appearance and last meals.
X0onP TIL of Cáin Adomnáin, dubbed "Europe's first human rights treaty". Created in the year 697, was a set of laws - which kings across Ireland and parts of Scotland mutually agreed to follow - that guaranteed the safety of non-combatants in warfare.
G4rJ TIL That iodine deficiency currently affects around 2 billion people and is the leading preventable cause of intellectual disability.