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TIL that Retta, who played Donna on Parks and Rec, has an aunt who is currently the President of Liberia

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LY8p TIL there was a cloning project to revive the extinct Pyrenean Ibex, which resulted in a female being cloned back into existence. However, it died 7 minutes later, making the species extinct again.
m1kZy TIL before the Declaration of Independence, the Second Continental Congress called the Thirteen Colonies the "United Colonies"
WkM6B TIL of Dr. Donald Hopkins. He helped eradicate Smallpox, and is on the verge of killing another disease. He's taken Guinea Worm Disease down from 3.5 million cases a year to just 28 cases last year.
5XZR TIL, when Green day singer Billie Joe Armstrong’s father died when he was a child. He ran home from the funeral and locked himself in his room. When his mother followed him home and asked him to come out. He told her to “wake me up when september ends.”
pYvY8 TIL being bullied is the least common in Korea and Japan amongst OECD countries