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TIL that giraffes can go longer without water than camels.

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de8Q TIL Reddit is owned by one of the largest media companies in the world, Advance Publications, which owns Conde Nast (~20 major magazines), the Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, over 40 newspaper companies, and more.
764x TIL that when Koichi Tanaka of Japan won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2002, he became the first to only have a bachelor’s degree. Tanaka was so unknown that he was on the second-lowest job level at the obscure Shimadzu Corp. The embarrassed scientific-instrument maker immediately promoted Tanaka.
8eMa TIL that the Coptic Christians who were recently attacked and continually persecuted are ironically the last guardians of the spoken ancient Egyptian language.
8xPZ TIL of the 2003 Iranian film, Crimson Gold. The lead role of a suicidal, schizophrenic pizza delivery man was played by an actual paranoid schizophrenic pizza delivery man, who had never acted before. The film was banned in Iran for being “too dark”.
woJBP TIL there have been 16 attempted or thwarted assassination plots against former or current U.S. Presidents since 2000.