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TIL about a hunter who won an auction to kill an endangered black rhino in Namibia. In this controversial practice, several older rhinos that are no longer able to breed but still pose a deadly threat to younger males areIDd. The proceeds are meant to go toward anti-poaching and conservation effort

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b6Oap TIL it is dangerous to blow air into a pregnant women's vagina. The increased air pressure can pass beneath the fetal membranes and into the circulation causing a venous air embolism that can kill within minutes.
d8KDE TIL The student dorms in Uppsala, Sweden has a tradition of every night at 10pm the students will start yelling out their windows to relieve stress. The yelling is responded to by more yelling from other students and helps relive stress and brings happiness to those who do it.
xle1 Til of Betelgeus: a massive star 450 light years away that may go supernova at any given moment and outshine the moon at night and be clearly visible during the day.
70Ar TIL a stray dog followed a Swedish racing team through the Amazonian jungles and rivers to complete a 430-mile (688 km) race, just because one of the team members had given it a meat ball during one of the earlier halts.
MPMV TIL that Bob Duffey, possibly the world’s best, safest, and most unknown motorcycle stuntman, boasts a career of over 1200 jumps with only 3 crashes having “a record of perfection unequaled by anyone.” At age 66, he still performs motorcycle stunts to this day.