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TIL Snowflake was the only known albino gorilla to date. He lived in a zoo in Spain until he died, in 2003, as a result of cancer likely related to his albinism.

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0571 [TIL] Four months after shooting American Sniper Chris Kyle dead, Eddie Routh confessed “I was just riding in the back seat of the truck, and nobody would talk to me. They were just taking me to the range, so I shot them. I feel bad about it, but they wouldn’t talk to me.”
NQOE TIL Byron White was a former star football player who became a Supreme Court Justice. He ruled in the case of Runyon v. McCrary in which a black student was rejected by a private school. That student, Michael McCrary would later become a NFL Linebacker and won the Byron White NFL Award in 2000.
rNLoo TIL: There exists a protein called "Sonic hedgehog SHH". Mutations in this gene can cause a condition known as "holoprosencephaly", a failure of splitting the two cerebral hemispheres, among other things.
J1rxk TIL: Martin Luther King Jr. Was a Star Trek Fan. He admired "Star Trek" for its vision of a diverse and harmonious future. When actress Nichelle Nichols considered leaving the show, King persuaded her to remain, emphasizing her role as a vital representation for African Americans.
4Ll5 TIL Sam Houston was left for dead by army surgeons during battle led by Andrew Jackson against Creek Indians. Not only did Houston survive, but years later he got into a fistfight with a Congressman who held a gun to Houston’s chest, pulled the trigger and misfired. Houston was left unharmed.