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TIL that over 100 million Sharks per year are killed to fuel the shark fin industry. This has caused the populations to drop 60-90% over the last 15 years.

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rN77M TIL palm trees lack cells to make tree rings and are genetically closer to grass than trees.
VQym TIL there is an abandoned subway station under City Hall in New York that no train stops at but that you can see in passing if you take the number 6 train
rNJN1 TIL that Temptations lead singer David Ruffin died in a West Philadelphia crack house in 1991. His family claim he had $40,000 in cash on his person at the time.
VOZD TIL Salvation Army and Goodwill have almost singlehandedly crippled Africa’s clothing industry
ONvX TIL that in 1909, the US built an Unsinkable “Concrete Battleship” in the Philippines