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TIL that Peta kills about 2000 animals every year, about 90 percent of all the animals they take it. I also learned that about 60 percent of all animals taken in by all shelters nationwide are killed. The total number of euthanasia per year in America? About 4,000,000.

grAkW TIL: the Texas Western Miners team of 1966 was the first team to win the NCAA national championship basketball game with an all African-American starting lineup. They suffered abuse throughout their tournament run and afterwards.
M7G0A TIL a 2021 UK study analyzed hospital statistics for 2010-2019 and found that 3,500 rectal foreign bodies were removed during that 9-year period. It also determined that nearly 400 removals were performed each year with an annual cost to the NHS of £338,819.
P1Eeg TIL about X-linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism, an adult-onset, genetic movement disorder which affects individuals who descend from the Philippine Island of Panay. It is a neurodegenerative disease that evolves over the course of many years, resulting in significant disability and a shortened life span.
VMOv8 TIL that between 1764-1767, a man-eating animal/group of animals terrorized a province in central France. The number of victims differs greatly, from 60 to over a 100. The beast was allegedly shot and killed in 1767. Modern scholars believe the attacks were carried out by wolves.
Wkj8L TIL about Paul Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement, a measure for the credibility of a rebuttal to an argument, explored in his 2008 essay (link to essay in comment)