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TIL: that ostrich meat is red meat unlike other poultry. It is closer too beef than it is chicken.

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lAyA TIL of Moko, a dolphin that helped rescue two beached whales in 2008. Humans had tried and failed to help the whales and were ready to give up, when the dolphin appeared, communicated with the whales and led them to safety
XGD8 TIL Interracial Marriage was not fully legalized in the USA until a 1967 Supreme Court Case
E1XDp TIL that the treasure hunting company, Odyssey, discovered the ship wreck of the HMS Sussex (1694) which had up to $500 million worth of gold on board in 2001. Despite a deal with the British government retrieve the loot, Spain refuses to let a team survey the site to this this day.
jOMv TIL: In 1994, Guns N Roses bassist Duff McKagan decided to invest $100k of his new GNR money in local Seattle companies, including an expanding chain of coffee shops, a software company and an online book seller - Starbucks, Microsoft and Amazon.
GO0G TIL: The FP-45 Liberator was a single shot pistol developed by the US during WWII with the intention of air dropping them to resistance fighters. The residence fighter would then sneak up on an Axis occupier, kill them, and take their superior weapons.