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TIL A baby puffin is called a "puffling."

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WkwnL TIL The US government imposed a livestock reduction on the Navajo in the 1930s. They bulldozed trenches,herded sheep and goats into them, coated them in flammable liquid, and burned them alive. They were promised land expansion that never materialized. From the memoir of Chester Nez, Code Talker.
Z8YLG TIL: Woolly Mammoths were still alive by the time the pyramids at Giza were completed. The last woolly mammoths died out on Wrangel Island, north of Russia, only 4000 years ago, leaving several centuries where the pyramids and mammoths existed at the same time.
7rKPX TIL that Gallifreyan, the language spoken by the Timelords of the British show Doctor Who, is something that can actually be written and translated.
ZpwlB TIL that the title of “first animals to go into space” goes to a group of fruit flies, which were sent into space on a V2 rocket by NASA in 1946
poXO TIL that in March 2011, a Brazilian man from Rio de Janeiro saved a penguin that was covered in oil. Since then, the penguin visits the man every year.