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TIL It's estimated for every baby chimpanzee sold by traffickers, 10 adults were killed in defense of that 1 infant.

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X6KE TIL there is more gold in the Earth than silver, mercury, iodine, and uranium combined.
9YYgQ TIL McDonalds has sold over 100 billion burgers, selling to 68 million people per day, which is more than the entire population of the UK. They sell 75 hamburgers per second globally.
dDyb9 TIL Wolverine almost a cameo in Spider-Man 1, Hugh Jackman travelled to New York to film a scene but the idea was scrapped when the production team realized they had lost Wolverine's suit
drZK TIL that Thomas Jefferson was the most multilingual President of the US. In addition to English, he was fluent in Greek, Latin, French, Italian and Spanish. There is also evidence he studied Arabic, Gaelic and Welsh.
x6Ne0 TIL raw termites taste like pineapple and cooked termites have a delicate, vegetable flavor