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TIL Many dog breeds are expected to go extinct within 50 years due to inbreeding.

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eGBE TIL that if the everyone lived as densely as they do in Manhattan the entire human race could fit into New Zealand.
E1g67 Telling someone to go jump off a cliff may sound like an insult, but to an adventure photographer like Krystle Wright it’s just another day at the office. In this week’s Today I Learned, Wright shares some of the insight she’s gained while photographing BASE jumpers. Did you know that "BASE" is actually an acronym for the four different objects a BASE jumper can plunge from?
E14Wp TIL after the 1980 film Popeye flopped, the set was abandoned, so the locals of Mellieha, Malta reclaimed it as a Popeye theme park.
GXxj TIL after outlaw Big George Nose was killed, the doctor’s performing the autopsy turned his skull into an ashtray and his skin into shoes. The doctor that kept the skull was the first female doctor in Wyoming and the doctor that kept the shoes wore them to his inauguration as governor of Wyoming
ADyB4 TIL Michael Jackson imagined and recorded the demo of 'Beat it' only by using his voice and layering tracks together before sending it to the producer.