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TIL Kenny the “Down Syndrome” tiger was the result of deliberate inbreeding between rare brother and sister white tigers and most of his siblings were either stillborn or died very young.

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Z8wRR TIL that when falconers want to breed falcons, they wear special sex hats with pockets to catch falcon semen. Birds reared by humans often sexually imprint on the falconer. The sex hat encourages the falcon to copulate with the falconers head and collects its sperm for artificial insemination.
Z86Qo TIL about Washoe, a female chimpanzee who was the first non-human to learn to communicate using American Sign Language. She learned approximately 350 signs.
MVA0 TIL Jimi Hendrix covered Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band live just three days after it was released, with Paul McCartney and George Harrison in the audience. It was never performed live by The Beatles.
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R0B7 TIL TIME Magazine prepares covers for different world markets, and U.S. covers are often much lest substantive (& often trite) when compared with those around the world