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TIL of the last Kaua'i 'ō'ō bird, who was recorded singing a mating call to a female that would never come. It died in 1987.

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KO4B TIL that in 1913 a Slovakian coal miner invented a parachute skirt. He demonstrated it by jumping off a building in Washington within eye shot of the U.S. Patent Office.
ANYWa TIL Senator Strom Thurmond had a child out of wedlock named Essie Washington-Williams who was black. She revealed herself as his daughter after his death at the age of 100. She tried to join the 'Daughters of the Confederacy', as she was eligible through her father's ancestry, but she was rejected.
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OGMwR TIL of a dog that was given plastic surgery to increase its quality of life and potential for rehoming after its nose was disfigured in a skirmish due to lack of food