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TIL Pride FC was heavily linked with the yakuza and a result ended up dissolving in 2007

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VBkA4 TIL Poachers have resorted to poisoning elephant water holes with cyanide to increase their efficiency. One poacher, Tony Maphosa, killed more than 100 elephants this way before being caught, after four years on the run
yWEa TIL in 1945 a farmer chopped off a chicken’s head, missed the jugular vein, a clot formed and some of the brain stem survived, providing basic homeostasis functions. Mike the headless chicken toured in sideshows for 18 months and earned the farmer $4,500/ month at the peak of his popularity
rjJ1 TIL Costco doesn’t make money selling products - it makes all profits from membership fees
GA6OG TIL that after two US soldiers were killed by North Korean troops for trimming a tree in the Korean DMZ, the US launched Operation Paul Bunyan(21 August 1976): a massive show of force involving B-52 bombers, fighter jets, and troops with chainsaws, just to finish cutting down the same tree.
WkkMY TIL During his 2009 TED talk, Bill Gates opened a jar of mosquitoes saying “Malaria is spread by mosquitoes. I brought some… I’ll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected” & waited for ~a minute before telling the audience that the bugs were malaria-free.