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TIL South Africa flies lions around the country with the intent of increasing genetic diversity and reducing population sub-division across lion populations.

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EgxLw TIL 108 billion people have lived on Earth. And nearly half, 52 billion, have been killed by mosquitoes
xjjk TIL that Kryptonite was invented because Superman’s original voice actor wanted time off, and the only way to do this was to make Superman sick.
Wo7N TIL Lance Von Allmen developed an oil containment system that uses chemically treated cellulose to perfectly absorb crude oil in water, and then wring the cellulose to get all of the crude oil back. He died a year after this aired. WHY wasn’t this used to clean up Deepwater Horizon?
gM054 TIL that the moon has uneven gravitation as there are locations of large, dense regions called mass concentrations, or mascons, which are characterized by strong gravitational pull
aw77y TIL: Hummingbirds' metabolism rate is so high that they will starve to death in two hours if they don't feed.