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TIL The last captive Carolina parakeet, Incas, died at the Cincinnati Zoo on February 21, 1918, in the same cage as Martha, the last passenger pigeon, who died in 1914.

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kkDg TIL that the Rhinoceros Party of Canada campaigned for such ideas as repealing the law of gravity, and tearing down the Rocky Mountains so that Albertans could see the Pacific sunset.
xVgOk TIL one of the main reasons why double jeopardy laws were overturned in England & Wales was to ensure that the murderers of Stephen Lawrence were brought to justice. The overturn meant that you can now be brought to trial again for murder in light of substantial new evidence.
R5VE1 TIL Molly Gibson was an embryo for 28 years before being born in 2020 (frozen in 92)
pYZZ8 TIL that only 48 people were rescued out of 212 cruise ship overboard incidents from 2009 to 2019.
4xDR TIL: Google Maps once generated a phantom town, Argleton, it appeared for job applicants, shops, real estate and had its own postcode.