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TIL Giraffes make sound but it is too low for humans to hear

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GYv61 TIL That 12 out of 45 (26.6%) American Presidents had their fathers pass away at a young age.
6EGdm TIL of the Plum Island Pink House. The wife in a divorcing couple forced her ex-husband to build a replica of their family home as part of the divorce settlement. She didn’t specify the location, so he built it in the middle of a salt marsh and plumbed it solely with salt water. It’s uninhabitable.
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epRrb TIL the two periods of the day, a.m. and p.m., used for 12-hour time convention stand for “ante meridiem” and “post meridiem”, Latin for “before midday” and “after midday” respectively.