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TIL there is only one recorded case of a human adult being killed by coyotes.

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grZXy TIL that 218 species and subspecies of primates across the globe are currently threatened by roads, railways, pipelines, and transmission lines. That is nearly half of all primates species in the world.
nejkW TIL one of the most brutal prisons in the US was Angola, Louisiana, which was run like a plantation. In the 1930s, hardened prisoners broke down upon learning of their sentence there. At one point, 10% of Angola prisoners were stabbed.
yKpX TIL Every day 22 veterans on average commit suicide in the USA. That’s one suicide every 65 minutes.
eLEL TIL Canada’s housing act once declared “Housing is not simply an economic commodity that can be bought and sold according to the vagaries of the market, but a social right”
ZpJka TIL that Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite is the same guy who played Laszlo in Real Genius.