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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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Jal4 TIL Wasps Can Recognize Faces
4Ea TIL NASA will pay you $15000 to sit in bed for 60 days (87 days of testing total), while they measure the effects of zero gravity on your body.
rRAee TIL the old format of 'Wheel of Fortune' in the 1980s took so long to film that hosts Pat Sajak and Vanna White would sneak off and have “two or three or six” margaritas before returning to the set, where they would “have trouble recognizing the alphabet”.
oBkdA TIL that a man set a record for the most expensive free drink at Starbucks ever when he used a coupon to order a "mega" latte with 101 shots of espresso and 17 pumps of vanilla syrup. His drink contained nearly 7500 mg of caffeine and rang up to $83.75.
BrBMe TIL hippos will spray their poop using their tails in order to mark their territory. Since baby hippos' intestines are sterile, they eat their mother's feces in order to mark their territory as well.