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TIL, India has become the first country in the world to develop and airdrop a portable hospital

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aBeN TIL the reason flamingos stand on one leg is to preserve body heat (water can rapidly draw away heat). In hotter weather, they tend to stand on two legs.
JYrK8 TIL Alexandre Dumas was only one-fourth black, from his paternal grandmother. His other three grandparents were white.
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