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Today I learned 25% of mammals are threatened by extinction.

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GAE8N TIL 2026 Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu was conceived using an anonymous egg donor and carried by a gestational surrogate
EWod TIL of the Holodomor, “Extermination by hunger”, a man-made famine that killed millions in Soviet Ukraine
R7kJQ TIL: Trapped behind enemy lines during the Korean War Chester Puller Stated, "We’ve been looking for the enemy for several days now. We’ve finally found them. We’re surrounded. That simplifies our problem of finding these people and killing them." He and his men survived.
XEdmD TIL of the aptly named "Operation Torpedo" in which the FBI compromised 3 dark web pages by exploiting a flaw in the Tor browser and caught 19 owners of child pornography
GYbv1 TIL an Italian rower lost his gold medal in the river after he was thrown in in a celebration