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

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JYeyk TIL the role of "alpha" in primates is not always determined by physical size or strength, but by collecting resources, forming political alliances, and intelligence. Some primates even experience increased stress from being in the alpha role.
4XaP5 TIL NASA was founded about a year after the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik, an artificial satellite and the first human made object to ever enter orbit, because it terrified the United States that this would give the USSR significant ground in the Cold War
N70aQ TIL that one of the oldest and most massive organisms, Pando, is dying.
9wBeX TIL Kool-Aid wasn’t used in the 1978 Jonestown massacre; the poisoned drink was Flavor Aid. So the phrase “drinking the Kool-Aid,” used to describe blind or dangerous devotion, is historically incorrect.
6yew TIL Argentine ants have a worldwide mega-colony, and if they get in an airplane and travel to a different continent, they will be welcomed in the foreign branch of the colony