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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.

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kl6e TIL Snoopy, the Peanuts Comic Strip character is NASA’s Official astronauts’ personal safety mascot.
ZLRY TIL Dark-skinned people living in northern Europe require six times as much UVB than white pigmented persons. Those living there with dark-skin are more susceptible to cancers, decreased brain function, and bone disease.
G6p7 TIL Rapper Tupac’s last known words were “fuck you” spoken to police officers trying to gather information on his shooter
dDm8B TIL the last elementary particle that we know to exist was discovered in 2012 at the CERN in Switzerland, using the Large Hadron Collider. It's called the Higgs boson and it's the particle responsible for "assigning" a mass to other elementary particles.
DQglr TIL - The same Duke of York, who lent his name to New York, also had the slaves of his Royal African Company branded with his title initials 'DY'.