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TIL that after the 2019 Alabama tornado, the Poarch Band of Creek Indians donated $184k to fund the funerals for all 23 fatalities as a result of the storm

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XEM6P TIL Tortoiseshell cats are almost always female. Male ones are incredibly rare and are usually sterile.
YpjWZ TIL that King George V, on a visit to Japan, had a local artist tattoo a blue and red dragon on his arm in 1881.
p8b9e TIL about a hunter who won an auction to kill an endangered black rhino in Namibia. In this controversial practice, several older rhinos that are no longer able to breed but still pose a deadly threat to younger males areIDd. The proceeds are meant to go toward anti-poaching and conservation effort
vMaj TIL: The opening of the male urethra, the meatus, is a vertical slit in order to force urine to exit in a spiral after having traveled the length of the penis in a vertically compressed tube. This design allows for greater control of the stream and also keeps the end of the urethra clean.
kOdkW TIL Al Green who originally made Take Me To The River got more royalties from the Big Mouth Billy Bass fish than from any other recordings of the song.