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TIL that only two Northern White Rhinoceros are left, and they are both females

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WvPo TIL of Kursk, a Russian submarine that sank in August of 2000 due to an accident involving poorly maintained torpedoes. None of the crew survived due to old, poorly maintained Russian rescue equipment and the Russian Navy’s refusal to accept Western aid.
kO4R5 TIL I learned that Zazu (that hornbill bird) from Disney’s The Lion King was voiced by Rowan Atkinson aka Mr. Bean.
rry TIL That from the late 1860s until the 1970s, several American cities had ugly laws making it illegal for persons with “unsightly or disgusting” disabilities to appear in public
Me7bK TIL that arguably the person credited with saving the most lives in human history is WWI chemical weapons scientist, Fritz Haber. His work directly lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands during the war, while accidentally saving billions from starvation by developing a way to convert N2 to NH3.
04o1 TIL Pat Robertson and several others who incorrectly predicted various dates for the end of world were jointly awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for “teaching the world to be careful when making mathematical assumptions and calculations”