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TIL India has 3 foot long, multicolored squirrels.
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TIL In 2009 Burger King launched a campaign that if you unfriended 10 friends on Facebook you were entitled to a free whopper. The person you unfriended would get a message telling them that their friendship is worth less than a whopper.
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TIL of Thomas “Shang” Draper, a crime lord in late 1800s NYC who ran a prostitution house with removable panels on the walls, making it easy for him and his associates to rob clients.
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TIL The Phoenix Zoo and the Fauna and Flora Preservation Society of London (now Fauna and Flora International), with financial help from the World Wildlife Fund, are credited with saving the Arabian oryx from extinction.Starting with 9 animals and now estimated more than 8,000 Arabian oryx's.
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TIL when Robert FitzRoy, whom Charles Darwin travelled with around the world and later vehemently opposed to Darwin’s views on evolution, killed himself due to depression and money troubles, Darwin donated a sizable sum to FitzRoy’s widowed family to ensure they would not fall on hard times.
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TIL that in the 1800s, a brand of medicine called Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup contained morphine ended up causing the death of many infants and young children.