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TIL that USP Alcatraz Island closed due to being 'too expensive' to continue operating.

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rNXp4 TIL The Golden Poison Frog found in the Amazon rain forest, is the most poisonous animal on the planet.They are so toxic that they have few (if any) predators. The indigenous tribes use the toxin for hunting. Secretions from a single frog could kill two bull elephants.
ADZB TIL the Pyrenean ibex is the only species ever to become ‘un-extinct’ after being cloned in 2009 – although the clone lived only 7 minutes.
OR6a TIL Cinco de Mayo is only popular among the Chicanos in the US. In Mexico, it’s not even a national holiday.
16W6O TIL that in 2012, a man in Florida choked to death after participating in (and winning) a live-cockroach-eating contest
pjBp TIL that there is a highway in Russia known as the Road of Bones, as the skeletons of the forced laborers who died during its construction were used in much of its foundations