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TIL the Kakapo, a large green flightless parrot from New Zealand, has a life expectancy of up to a 100 years.

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Oo4oY TIL There exists a non profit organization whose sole mission is to assure the six Apollo lunar landing sites are preserved and protected for posterity by having them included on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) World Heritage List
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m0Go TIL that there is a banned episode of the Disney cartoon Talespin that shows the hero Baloo getting involved in a terrorist plot. It aired once in 1992 then wasn’t seen again for over a decade.
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