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TIL the last male Northern white rhino joined Tinder

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p8vgA TIL Jessie Roberta Cowan (aka Rita), from Kirkintilloch, Scotland, is known as the Mother of Japanese Whisky. She married Masataka Taketsuru, who had come to Scotland to study Chemistry and the art of whisky-making, and she followed him back to Japan, where she provided moral and financial support.
6Zbm TIL that “old-person smell’ is a real thing — Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia confirmed that elderly people really do have a distinct scent, so recognizable in fact that people can identify them by body odor alone.
KYDrw TIL ex-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer admitted that in 2013 Yahoo should've purchased either Netflix at $4 billion or Hulu at $1.3 billion instead of buying Tumblr at $1.1 billion stating it "would have been a better acquisition." By 2016, Yahoo had to write down Tumblr's value by a total $712 million.
1aZ58 TIL Stanford researchers in Costa Rica found adding a single tree to pasture land could boost biodiversity. For example, the number of bird species after one tree was planted went from near zero to 80.
OowrR TIL the difference in inheritances from parents with college degrees vs those without is just $17k, and the difference between inheritances from black vs white parents is just $3k