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TIL there is a group of dog breeders attempting to bring back the look of the dire wolf

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965M TIL that propane has no natural odor. The “propane smell” is added to propane for safety purposes.
lp8G TIL that during the Battle of the Nile in 1798, the French naval officer Du Petit Thouars, having lost both legs and an arm, continued to command from a bucket filled with wheat, until he died.
rNG11 TIL that there are nearly 20 times as many billionaires today as in 1987. In 1987, there were just 140 billionaires in the world, worth a combined $295 billion. There are now 2,755 billionaires, worth a combined $13.1 trillion.
RJAa TIL that since the MESSENGER probe intentionally crashed onto the surface of Mercury at mission end last year, we now have man-made objects on all four planets inside the asteroid belt.
0wavv TIL Population Reference Bureau estimates that by 2050 about 113 billion people will have ever lived on Earth. Those of us currently alive represent about 7% of the total number of humans who have ever lived.