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TIL The reasons for breeding problems in pandas are most likely to be related to the inability of the captive living environment to meet giant pandas’ various physiological needs, resulting in the inability to fully express their natural instincts, such as mate selection and mating

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X0X9k TIL that Unicode uses elephants as a baseline comparison for cultural frequency when considering whether to add a new emoji
5rWR TIL There is a human library where you can “rent” people and listen to their stories!
1ad8D TIL the MAS*H theme, 'Suicide Is Painless,' was initially intended to be "stupidest song ever written" and was ultimately written by a 14 year old.
kOJxd TIL that Darko Milicic, who was drafted 2nd overall in the 2003 NBA draft (before Carmelo Anthony, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh) is currently an apple farmer in Serbia.
grPo8 TIL: about the massacre of Kalavryta, where occupying German soldiers massacred an entire village for the death of 78 prisoners of war that had been captured by Greek guerrillas. Only 13 men survived, and one lone Austrian soldier saved the most of the women from being burned alive. 693 people died.