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TIL a video recording of the last moments aboard the columbia shuttle was found in the debris undamaged

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9KAr TIL that during the 1400s, Africans trained killer bees to protect their villages and keep the slave traders away.
9ErM TIL in 2014, an 8-year-old boy named Tyler Doohan, saved 6 members of his family from his burning house before finally succumbing to the fire himself while trying to save the last victim, his disabled grandfather.
lobxA TIL a giraffe heart spans 2 feet and weighs 25 pounds
OWgY TIL Captain Planet had an episode dealing with an HIV positive child voiced by Neil Patrick Harris, and Elizabeth Taylor voiced his mother
j6NGa TIL in 2009 women in a Colombian village went on a sex strike to get the men to repair the only road in and out of town. 112 days later work began on the highway.