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4yN5 TIL Of Heterosis, also known as Hybrid Vigor, meaning hybrid animals grow faster and stronger than the parents and are also less susceptible to disease
69PYX TIL that Will Lee, who played Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street, was blacklisted for refusing to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee.
oBXVr TIL the oldest known flag in the United States is the “Bedford Flag” it shows an armored arm grasping a sword with the motto “conquer or die” it was used by the Minutemen at Lexington
b6rV9 TIL while most Woolly Mammoth populations died out 14,000 to 10,000 years ago, the last population survived on Wrangell Island up until 4000 years ago, as the Pyramids were being built.
W7Lvd TIL in China there's a public health issue regarding an illegal practice called "Gutter Oil" as up to 10% of the restaurants use cooking oil manually refined from the sewage waste.