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TIL Both Tom Hanks & George Clooney are related to Abraham Lincoln

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jNnRv TIL giant pandas are under thread of mass starvation due to bamboo mass blossoming this year. After bamboo, panda's main food source, blooms it dies and it takes 10 years for new bamboo to mature. When this happened in 1975 giant panda population dropped from 2000 to 1000 over the next 10 years.
nMB9 TIL Mathematicians at London’s King’s College used statistical modeling in a study commissioned by Sky Movies to conclude that The Shining was the “perfect scary movie” due to a proper balance of various ingredients including shock value, suspense, gore and size of the cast
ZnpQ TIL Finland has been pioneering a form of deciding upon public policy where people actually think through the problems at issue, ponder on them, consider solutions, test a few of them, and then implement the best.
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GYKdg TIL about Ivo Zdarsky, a man who escaped the Soviet Bloc in a homemade airplane