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TIL About Pink Floyd, a wild flamingo that escaped from a zoo in Wichita KS in 2005 and has been evading capture ever since.

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n8lo TIL: The discovery of insulin, and the mechanism underlying diabetes, was prompted by the observation that ants were attracted to the urine of dogs that were missing their (surgically removed) pancreas.
oLnK TIL In 1988 Mad Magazine drew attention to a cigarette manufacturer that owned a life insurance company - claiming cigarettes were harmless while charging more to insure smokers.
9Y41X TIL that thousands of poor Black women were sterilized involuntarily in several southern states by white physicians when they presented for care for other health issues. The procedure became known as a Mississippi Appendectomy.
kJ7R7 TIL that Wells Fargo's stagecoach is not an advertising gimmick. It began in 1852 as both a bank and shipping company for the new US state of California. Wells Fargo owned stagecoach lines, carried mail, and operated part of the Pony Express.
690aZ Today I learned there's an island off Madagascar called Nosy Be, the chief city being Hell-Ville