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TIL that wildlife populations have sunk 69% since 1970

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1v7O TIL the murder rate in Honduras is so high that some cities have had to start offering a program for free funerals. There is a violent death in Honduras every 74 minutes.
nm8G TIL that a man who had half of his body amputated after being run over by a truck opened his own bargain supermarket, called the Half Man-Half Price Store.
Egn5W TIL that before trees took over the earth the land was covered with Prototaxites, a fungus that became extinct more than 350 million years ago and is believed to have reached almost 9m high and 1.37m in diameter.
p8074 TIL : Belgrade (capital city of Serbia) has one of the greatest strategic positions, in fact so big, that there were 115 battles for it and it was destroyed about 40 times.
Z8nko TIL some ppl pretend to go along with scammers, leading them on and taking up their time and resources which keeps them from targeting actual potential victims. If everyone did that they would soon be out of business