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TIL Former Governor of Colorado, Ralph L. Carr, was one of the only politicians who publicly opposed Japanese Internment at the time and his position on the issue destroyed his political career.

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6e9X TIL Cumulus cloud weighs as much as 2.2 billion pounds (1 billion kilograms)
GdlQ TIL that the Disney character who has appeared in the most films is…Donald Duck. He is also the fifth most published comic book character, behind Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and Wolverine.
XEWdD TIL coral are actually animals, not plants, since they do not make their own food. They are the largest structures of biological origin on Earth. Most structures that we call "coral" are, in fact, made up of hundreds to thousands of tiny coral creatures called polyps, which secrete calcium carbonate
kYQg TIL James Cameron sketched Jack’s nude portrait of Rose for the film Titanic
yQlyl TIL that almost a thousand years before the modern environmental movement, William the Conqueror established the system of "Forest Law", which operated outside of the Common Law in effort to protect game animals and their forest habitat from destruction.