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TIL In Kenya a turtle adopted a hippo that was abandoned after a tsunami.

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M7X8A TIL about Fusionism, where from 1894 to 1900 the North Carolina Republican Party and the Populist Party collaborated via electoral fusion to compete against the North Carolina Democratic Party. This coalition would play a pivotal role as being victims of the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898.
m1RkR TIL that the inventor of the Pringles can is now buried in one.
LbPv TIL that George Washington was almost killed by a British Sniper at the Battle of Brandywine - he was spared since he had his back turned to the marksman.
Wk8V4 TIL the incisors of Beavers are orange because they contain iron. That iron strengths the teeth and better able to cut through wood.
wokr1 TIL that that TRW engineers Don Nelson and "Dick" Pick invented the Generalized Information Retrieval Language System, aka GIRLS