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TIL the last male Northern white rhino joined Tinder

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xbDw TIL that if an employee of Google dies, their spouse will receive half their pay for 10 years as well as stock benefits, and any children will receive $1000 a month till they turn 19.
0w5Wp TIL country music artist Glen Campbell's heartbreaking song "I'm Not Gonna Miss You" was written for his wife after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
BrBrD TIL that the first "road trip" was taken by Bertha Benz, wife of Karl Benz. She traveled 66 miles in the third Benz motorcar prototype without her husband's knowledge.
e0BO5 TIL Steven Bradbury, a speedskater and Australia’s first gold medalist in the Salt Lake Winter Olympics, won his medal by purposely going slower than the other 4 skaters and hoping that one or more of them would crash to secure at least a bronze. All four crashed near the finish line.
JXRl TIL a genetic study of people from Iceland found a number of them had a mutation predominantly found among Native Americans. It has theorised that this could be because of American women breeding with Viking men, during Norse exploration of America in the 11th century AD.