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TIL: In the 1950s, to re-establish breeding populations, pairs of beavers were dropped by parachute in remote wildernesses. It worked.

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k8JW TIL The United States is close to being in the 30% of nations with the world’s most unequal distribution of wealth, which includes Haiti, Rwanda, Uganda, and South Africa.
9lwM TIL that Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe in Roe v. Wade), who argued the case for a woman’s right to abortion, is today a pro-life activist.
8ayob TIL about body snatchers aka "resurrection men", paid men that were ought to do grave-robbing. These men provided a number of schools with cadavers, and members of the schools would use influence to keep these men out of jail. People (alive) used Railings to protect graves from body snatchers.
b6YL4 TIL The way vehicle environmental regulations are calculated is causing new trucks to be built larger over time
xvQg TIL in 1976 a film crew went to the haunted house in a California amusement park to shoot footage for a popular tv show. They discovered a hanging body that they thought was a mannequin… turns out it was a real person who had been dead and circulating in various carnivals for over sixty years