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TIL most animal and plant species are able to generate Vitamin C on their own. Humans (and related species), Guinea Pigs and Capybaras are among the few that can't

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6E5jJ TIL Britney Spears, 37, has been in a conservatorship since 2008 and can’t legally vote, get married, or drive a car without permission from her guardian.
5d7B TIL F-Zero X for the Nintendo 64 was the first racing game to run at 60 Frames Per Second
GLL5 TIL that each letter in the English alphabet has an official word spelling out the letter. For example, “H” is spelled “aitch” and “Y” is spelled “wye”.
neQPG TIL some of the slaves freed from Charleston SC during the civil war organized a March at a race track where union soldiers had died in what is known as the first memorial day observance (a year before other states, and 3 years prior to the first national observance).
kJGBB TIL that in the 1948 California Supreme Court case Perez v. Sharp, the County of Los Angeles included quotations from Mein Kampf in arguing that the state’s ban on interracial marriage should be upheld.