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TIL the Nine-banded armadillos, the only armadillo species found in America always gives birth to identical quadruplets.

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4Zd6 TIL- The United States federal government still does not recognize the Armenian Genocide.
ra4y TIL Five years ago, Billy Crystal signed a one day contract with the New York Yankees. His position: “Designated Hebrew”.
xVXZ1 TIL - Falcons are more closely related to parrots than hawks or eagles
lmY5 TIL of Robert H Lawrence Jr. a Major in the USAF, he was the first black man to be trained as an astronaut, however, he died in a plane crash during flight training and never made it to space.
9YAg6 TIL that a Polish environmental charity put a SIM card in a GPS tracker to follow the migratory pattern of a white stork. They lost track of the stork and later received a phone bill for $2,700; someone in Sudan had taken the SIM from the tracker and made over 20 hours of calls.