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TIL that Rock Squirrels are considered the most dangerous animal in the Grand Canyon

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E1X4V TIL that an almost entirely white animal might not be an albino but leucistic, which is a very different condition. Albinoism means a lack of melanin and results in pink eyes, whereas leucism is only a partial loss of pigment and the animal has normal eyes.
VdWZ TIL America is under a perpetual State of Emergency; 30 of them, to be exact. With the oldest dating back to the late 70s.
Bdad TIL that in 1000, Spain had over 5,000,000 Muslims. By 1614, every Muslim was either forced to convert, leave, or be killed by Catholic monarchs.
laQG TIL in the 1970s, over 700,000 tires, held together by steel, were dumped off the coast of Florida to create an artificial reef. The steel later rusted apart, detaching the tires and causing an environmental disaster.
A8El TIL of the urumi, a flexible whip sword no longer used in battle, but still practiced as an extremely dangerous martial art.