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TIL that in Kenya, elephant poop is being used to make paper. Elephants poop up to 50kg a day which can produce 125 sheets of paper. This helps save the indigenous tree population and forest from being destroyed, along with creating a need for the 7000 elephants left in Kenya.

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V7n0 TIL that a man named Chen Si spends every weekend of his life at the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge (the World’s #1 suicide site) and saves people from jumping. He has saved 144 people from killing themselves so far.
bNpQ TIL Trailers were originally shown at the end of a film screening, but they were often ignored by audiences who left immediately after the film.
6PmJ TIL there exists a mysterious fruit-tree species in Arkansas discovered by science in 1990, who is only the second of its kind, with its closest relative being in Europe. It exists only in a 22 acre area, there are only 25 trees left of its kind and no one knows where it came from.
KOW1B TIL The Florida State Seminoles is not a mascot. Instead, the University calls themselves “Seminoles” in honor of the Native American tribe. The name is supported and endorsed by the tribe, and the University and tribe share a special relationship.
R5oB7 TIL about San Miguel de Gualdape, a short-lived Spanish colony founded in 1526 somewhere in modern South Carolina or Georgia. The location had the first enslaved Africans in the modern United States, and also the first slave revolt. The fates of the Africans is lost to history.