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TIL that Charles Darwin’s wife, Emma, often referred to him as “My Nigger” as seen in this handwritten letter.

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Mem6A TIL that the red-crested tree rat, thought to have gone extinct 119 years ago, showed up out of the blue at a hotel in Colombia where two conservationists were staying and let them photograph him for a few hours before disappearing again.
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