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TIL Daewoo made not only cars but guns too

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nWx5B TIL of the Indian Vulture Crisis, where the population of three species of vulture went from 40 million birds in the 80s to just 19,000 in 2017, a decline of 99.95%
p80xO TIL that there is a species of jellyfish which can live forever. Instead of dying, they can transform back into their juvenile state. The only way to kill one is by disease or if another animal consumes it.
owbE TIL that in 1971, a chimpanzee community began to divide, and by 1974, it had split completely into two opposing communities. For the next 4 years this conflict led to the complete annihilation of one of the chimpanzee communities and became the first ever documented case of warfare in nonhumans
XEelE TIL That John Chrysostomos is one of the people responsible for interpreting Sodom as a place of sodomy, instead of just a place of inhospitatality, which was the traditional interpretation before him.
aBV0 TIL MI6 once hacked an Al-Qaeda website and replaced instructions on how to make a bomb with a cupcake recipe.