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TIL 80% of white tigers will die of birth defects as a result of inbreeding.

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0alR TIL In 1854, during the Crimean war, the British hospital in Constantinople was extremely unhygienic. Patients lay in their own excrement, and rodents and bugs scurried past them. More soldiers died of disease than injury. Florence Nightingale fixed this by getting patients to clean the hospital.
gMgw7 TIL for every bag of Sugar Daddies, Sugar Babies and Junior Mints you eat, you're helping fight the war against Communism and the New World Order
pK4p TIL in 2015 people spent more money at restaurants than on groceries for the first time ever according to the United States Commerce Department.
LVB0 TIL that Russia is bigger than former planet Pluto
WM6N TIL George Lucas was in debt after building Skywalker Ranch and producing the bomb “Howard the Duck”, so he sold the Lucasfilm CGI division to Steve Jobs, which later became Pixar.