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TIL That white giraffes exist and are not albino.

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647 TIL A Particle Accelerator with 5x the Power of the Large Hadron Collider was planned in Texas but was scrapped due to budget concerns
yVyDv TIL about Laura Dekker, a Dutch sailor who at the age of 16 became the youngest person to sail around the world.
ne8MB TIL about Mary Mallon, an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid, who spread it in New York city in the 1900s. Dr. George Soper discovered every establishment she worked in as a cook had an outbreak of typhoid and warned her to wash her hands but she ignored him and continued to spread it all over the city
LOg9 TIL that anyone who is admitted can attend university in Norway for free and that their top of the line engineering degrees are taught in English.
LkP9r TIL the Roanoke colony was never “lost”.