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TIL that PETA euthanizes about 99% of the animals that end up in their shelters.

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RV94 TIL that out of the seven independent companies created by the breakup of AT&T in 1982-84, four are back in the hands of AT&T.
yljV TIL Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was extremely racist & founded the organization with the hope that “feeble-minded” minorities would leave reproduction to “more suitable” races.
RWX9 TIL twenty years ago Australian aboriginal suicide rates were equivalent to the national rate but now they are three fold, and in some regions spates of suicide have reached 100 times the national average.
Egnxw TIL actor Albert Brooks’ birth name was Albert Einstein and his brother is actor Bob Einstein.
x6L5B TIL: Clyde Tombaugh, the man that discovered Pluto in 1930, is the great uncle to MLB pitcher Clayton Kershaw.