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TIL During the Irish famine, about a million people died and another million emigrated, causing the Island's population to drop by about 20-25 percent.

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mOVx TIL licence plates in the Canadian Northwest Territories are shaped like polar bears.
xr9k TIL Elephant populations aren’t the only ones being threatened by unsustainable poaching. Elephant poachers are also targeting vultures. it is becoming increasingly common for poachers to poison the carcass of elephants they hunt, so that the circling birds don’t give away the location of the kill.
XEEMQ TIL the man who coined the phrase “a mind is a terrible thing to waste” briefly had Ted Bundy as his driver and bodyguard
MY8K TIL of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919 where over 1500 peaceful protestors were shot dead in 10 minutes by the British in India
lgEK TIL that cephalopods (octopus) have been known to remove themselves from their aquarium, move a distance across a lab floor, and enter another aquarium to feed on crabs before returning to their original tank.