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TIL that ~1 in 5 people in the U.S. believe the world will end in their lifetime.

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0wZd5 TIL before killing Cecil the lion Walter Palmer was penalized $2938 for illegally killing a black bear in Wisconsin in 2006 and he tried to bribe his guides $20000 to cover it up
YXjd TIL that forks were used in China before the invention of chopsticks
nym9 TIL That there is a version of Monopoly called Ghettopoly where you can build crack houses with your hoes.
JvBQ TIL that the last serving soldier drafted during the Vietnam war didn’t retire until 2014
pnJG TIL astronaut David Scott dropped a hammer and a feather on the moon, repeating Galileo’s gravity experiment