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TIL Ralph Lawrence Carr, Governor of Colorado, spoke out against the internment of the Japanese after Pearl Harbor, costing him his political career

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JYOrV TIL that "Star Wars" creator George Lucas personally funded "Jurassic Park" paleontologist Jack Horner's "Build a Dinosaur" (a.k.a "chickenosaurus") project, a bid to "reverse genetically engineer a living dinosaur using chicken DNA".
xVX07 TIL you don’t forget things you did when you were drunk, your brain just never recorded the memories as the events happened.
W7pBd TIL George Washington Never Had Wooden Teeth
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7rDbx TIL that Moby Dick was based on albino Sperm Whale nicknamed Mocha Dick