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TIL killing a panda can result in the death penalty in China

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bpkQ TIL The Man rejected on UCLA jumbotron marriage proposal that made national news, Was told by his girlfriend that one reason she couldn’t marry him was that his penis was too small.
9wZlp TIL that in March of 1945, the United States firebombed Tokyo. This killed over 100,000 civilians, more than the bomb dropped in Nagasaki five months later.
6xwZ TIL that despite their looks, falcons are more closely related to parrots than they are to hawks and eagles.
D10Wj TIL that farmers have cows swallow a big magnet, so when cows eat things like loose nails, it doesn’t travel through their digestive tract and rip it open.
EVBP TIL The genetic record suggests humans are only one of at least 16 upright-walking apes that have lived over the last 5-6 million years and we almost went extinct 70,000 years ago when our numbers dropped to around 2,000 individuals.