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TIL: Scientists used the frozen sperm from a Black-Footed Ferret who had been dead for 20 years to successfully produce offspring. The Black-Footed Ferret is a critically endangered species.

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Pnln TIL: There’s an island in the Bahamas famous for its swimming pigs
j6oeN TIL Cotton candy is called "old lady's hair" in India and Greece.
KLv6 TIL: Members of the band “Good Charlotte” protested against KFC’s treatment of chickens. Then in 2012 and 2013 appeared in a number of KFC commercials in Australia and even tried to set a world record for eating KFC on “Australia’s Got Talent”
VBGg4 TIL that all of the rubber in a car tyre is one single molecule.
j6PXQ TIL the myth of a Deaf Frenchman and a hearing American teaching each other their languages on an ocean voyage in 1816, prior to establishing the first school for the Deaf in the US is not only true, but meticulously-documented. (And The Lincoln statue hands really do show his initials in ASL.)