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TIL, Neanderthals and Woolly Mammoths Shared Genetic Traits

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yVYae TIL In a 2014 report it was found that the mortality rate for professional wrestlers was significantly higher than that of athletes in other sports.
8eyYb TIL that of the 195 UN member and observer states, just 5 aren't party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Of these, 4 are known or believed to possess nuclear weapons, while the fifth is South Sudan.
Z8LRR TIL North Korea started to attempt to emulate certain aspects of China’s economic reform policies in 1980s, but both Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il felt great hostility toward China after Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path of pursuing market-oriented “socialism with Chinese characteristics”
mZWY TIL the blobfish doesn’t look like that in the deep sea (i.e. when it’s alive), it just looks like a normal fish
NXZA1 TIL that CS 1.6 has a map called cs_italy2, huge surprise to me considering I was a fervent CS player and love the original map.