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TIL I learned that the only Brown Panda in the world was abandoned by his mother at two months old, and was bullied by other pandas. Now has his own care-taker in Foping Panda Valley in China.

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loA9B TIL about the Polish Operation of the NKVD (Soviet security police) in ‘37-38, which was an anti-Polish mass ethnic cleansing operation carried out in the USSR, ordered by the Politburo, resulting in the sentencing of 139,835 people, and summary executions of 111,091 Poles.
wLRDY TIL The chief prosecutor for the United States in the Nuremberg Trials was Ben Ferencz, a 27 year old Jewish American lawyer who had never tried a case before. He investigated Nazi war crimes and went on to help establish the International Criminal Court. He's still alive today at 101.
N7jw8 TIL about York, a slave belonging to William Clark (of Lewis and Clark) and the first African American to cross North America to reach the Pacific
grm8 TIL that Jose M. Hernandez went from migrant worker to astronaut. He’s currently running for congress in California at the urging of the president.
gMNVb TIL of "Lost Dakota"- a small portion of the Dakota Territory that was not given to any state in the late 19th century and was subsequently forgotten for five years. It was later annexed by Montana and is uninhabited to this day, although it is reportedly "infested with grizzly bears".