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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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myeY TIL the United Kingdom writes, prints and stores all of its laws on goatskin
KY6NQ TIL when NASA sent the first woman, Sally Ride, to space they thought she needed 100 tampons for a 6 day trip.
QNEnL TIL Courtney Love was the lead singer in Faith No More in 1984
4XQKo TIL the first self-made black female millionaire of America was Madam C. J. Walker whose both parents were enslaved. After experiencing hair loss herself she created the "Walker system" which involved scalp preparation, lotions and iron combs. Her saleswomen were called "beauty culturalists".
ADPX4 TIL of Movile Cave. Life in the cave has been separated from the outside for the past 5.5 million years and it is based completely Chemosynthesis. The atmosphere deep in the cave it like an alien planet, and more than 30 of the species found inside cannot be found anywhere else on Earth.