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TIL An extremely rare only female white giraffe and her calf killed by local poachers in Kenya.

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40j6 TIL that the Guinness World Records stopped awarding the fattest cats or any other animal to discourage deliberate overfeeding
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wLQ0o TIL that Eli Black, then-CEO of the successor of United Fruit killed himself by jumping onto the tracks of Grand Central Station when his illicit bribes to the Honduran government were discovered. His son is now one of the most successful hedge fund managers in the world.
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