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TIL the Pangolin is the worlds most trafficked animal due to demand for their meat, scales, and skin.

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8aGrZ TIL in 1944, 22-year-old Corporal Anthony Damato threw himself on an enemy hand grenade, saving the lives of his two Marines at the cost of his own life. President Roosevelt later awarded him the Medal of Honor calling it a "fearless and valiant sacrifice reflecting great upon himself and the US".
w0GE TIL on 1st April,2008 Youtube rickrolled its viewers by redirecting every featured front page video to the original song video, ‘Never gonna give you up’
N8W8 TIL that John R. Fox deliberately called for artillery fire on his own position, after his position was overrun, in order to defeat a German attack in the vicinity of Sommocolonia, northern Italy during World War II.
b9Rb4 TIL that Internet and dial-up Email were being used by ordinary people as early as 1984. Slow adoption was the challenge, not technology.
0wwOR TIL that in 1995 authorities of the People's Republic of China abducted the 6 year old Panchen Lama of Tibet, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima. He has not been seen or heard from since.