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TIL about the Red Prince Souphanouvong who sacrificed his royal bloodline to lead a pro-worker socialist revolution in Laos

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VQ8B TIL that there is a prison facility in downtown Chicago that is 28 floors high, has a rooftop exercise yard and each cell has a slit window
epn0b TIL that a robot fish invented to mimic the natural predator of the 'mosquitofish' was so effective that it altered their behaviour, physiology and fertility, effectively "scaring them to death".
WXd TIL The StarWars Kid filed a $250,000 Lawsuit against the families of students who uploaded the video
xVyDk TIL of a nomadic water bird called the “branded stilt” found in Australia that can mysteriously sense and chase rainfalls hundreds of miles away often in sudden, unpredictable and gypsylike movements
OGbB6 TIL about Jonathan, a 192 year old Seychelles Giant Tortoise who is the oldest living land animal