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TIL that a mutation called "pseudomelanism" can make affected zebras to appear to be spotted instead of striped.

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LkavZ TIL: There are Asian (Thai) who fought in US Civil War, participated and survived in many major battle, and became the first Asian to received US pension.
neGWY TIL that The Volcanic Eruption of Krakatoa Indonesia On 27th August 1883 with an explosion the equivalent power of 150 million tonnes of TNT. The eruption was so loud that the sound was heard over a twelfth of the Earth’s surface, the shockwaves reverberated around the entire planet, seven times.
e0AAD TIL about David Vetter, a boy lived almost his whole life in a sterile bubble because he had severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID). Dubbed "the boy in the bubble", he died at 12 after a failed bone marrow transplant.
yVaO8 TIL that, as a tribute to Ronald McNair (physist and accomplished saxophonist who died in the 1986 CHALLENGER explosion), Jean-Michel Jarre used McNair's actual heartbeat (recorded in training) in the recording of "Ron's Piece" which was to have originally been played live and broadcast from space.
GDVN TIL that there is a Scandinavian company that is working on a way to translate what a dog is thinking using EEG-sensors and micro computers. They already have a prototype available.