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TIL there are 68 animal and plant species considered ‘extinct in the wild’ and only exist in zoos, aquariums or botanical gardens.

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Me47A TIL Cleopatra was not actually Egyptian.the last queen of Egypt wasn't born in Egypt. As best as Historians can tell, Cleopatra VII (that's her formal name) was Greek. She was a descendant of Alexander the Great's Macedonian general Ptolemy.
R7or1 TIL Manny Pacquiao became World Boxing Champion in 1998. Over 20 years later he is still World Boxing Champion with his latest victory being over an undefeated Keith Thurman who was 10 years younger.
oBkkY TIL despite being 8 times smaller, Spotify pays music artists twice as much as YouTube does. The music industry makes more money selling vinyl records than from YouTube.
m1ZJM TIL that the Marquis of Queensbury once told Oscar Wilde "If I catch you and my son again in any public restaurant I will thrash you". Wilde responded: "I don't know what the Queensberry rules are, but the Oscar Wilde rule is to shoot on sight".
nWEmW TIL that people with aphantasia cannot visualize or picture memories