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TIL: Red pandas are not related to giant pandas, they are in their own family with no living relatives.

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R7V91 TIL Anne Frank died of a typhus epidemic that ravaged Bergen-Belsen rather than by execution.
OoeQR TIL All of the beaches along the Oregon coast are owned by the state and are free and open to all
4XpJo TIL that the single oldest complete piece of music is actually from 1400BC. It's known as "Hurrian Hymn No. 6" and an example one can listen to is heavily contested over because it is one of about five "rival decipherments of the notation, each yielding entirely different results".
QNGAp TIL that human bones can be replaced by prosthetic ones. A common bone replacement procedure is hip replacement. It is mostly done for old adults above 60 who suffer from damaged hip joint.