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TIL the Vaquita porpoise is so endangered that there are only 9 left in the wild. They are the world’s most endangered marine mammal.

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mxdXO TIL a live recording of pop saxophonist Kenny G's "Going Home" is played in businesses/stores/stations/on TV throughout China at the end of the day. Many Chinese people associate the song with going home or finishing work, though they do not know the track or artist
Av74 TIL that 14th US President Franklin Pierce recited his 3,319-word inaugural address from memory, without the aid of notes.
0a6M TIL that only in the US is Z said as “zee”. In the rest of the English speaking world, the letter is said as “zed”.
PYdVV TIL Marijuana flowers are either male or female. Many marijuana plants have either only male or only female flowers, but some have both on the same plant.
gMXZ8 TIL of the letter written by a slave named Jourdon Anderson who was freed from slavery after the Civil War, in response to his former master Patrick Henry Anderson's request for him to return to his old plantation and save his ailing business.