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TIL that there where woolly rhinoceros that inhabited northern Eurasia

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9YNl6 TIL that the global Jewish population (2016: 14,410,700) has yet to catch up to its pre-WWII population (1939: 16,728,000).
LY8p TIL there was a cloning project to revive the extinct Pyrenean Ibex, which resulted in a female being cloned back into existence. However, it died 7 minutes later, making the species extinct again.
4mn5 TIL the most common Vietnamese family name, “Nguyen”, is pronounced “Win” in English.
4GEJ TIL that in the 5th century, St. Benedict wrote a rule book for monks. He convinced them to be celibate, poor, to get up in the middle of the night to pray, to engage in hard labor and almost no conversation, to obey the orders of their abbott … but he couldn’t convince them to give up the booze.
4k61o TIL composer Robert Schumann would often plunge his hands into the entrails of a dead animal to cure any illness he was suffering from.