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TIL that the oldest living chicken was also in a magic act and met Jay Leno on The Tonight Show

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K0R6 TIL Yao Ming is an ambassador for elephant conservation
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5VWlQ TIL that Olive Oatman, a white girl kidnapped by Native Americans in 1851 and sold to the Mojave people as a slave, caused an uproar after returning to white society bare-breasted with blue tattoos across her face, which inspired the book "Life Among the Indians", an early American best seller.
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