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TIL there is only one white giraffe left in the world...

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XElPD TIL about male Australian semelparous phascogales, a tiny marsupial, that have such frantic sex that it can kill them. They copulate for up to 14 hours at a time, during which their muscles start to break down so that every ounce of energy can be diverted into mating.
xRkB TIL Monopoly was originally meant to teach people about the evils of capitalism.
lokbr TIL about the city of Cahokia; a Native American (Mississippian) city built on the Mississippi which had over 140 hand-built earthen mounds, more people than contemporaneous London, a copper smelting workshop and 5 concentric circles of posts which line up with the sun on equinoxes and solstices.
MeRkm TIL that the University of Glasgow created an artificial tongue using gold and aluminum that can distinguish between whiskeys with 99% accuracy, with the goal of reducing counterfeit alcohol in circulation.
wo8V7 TIL that baseball superstar Steve Garvey’s wife Cynthia left him in 1983 for music legend Marvin Hamlisch. Some people may only know Hamlisch as the guy that played the song “You’re So Vain” on the piano in the movie How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days.