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TIL that apartheid South Africa designated East Asians as “honorary whites”, granting them the same rights and privileges as white South Africans

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Zp5Ko TIL: Giraffes no make sound much, they mostly quiet. They have long necks to reach tree leafs. Baby giraffes born and drop like 6 feets to ground, but they ok. Giraffes sleep very little, like 30 min in day.
m15Vx TIL that Zheng He (Cheng Ho) was a Muslim admiral who made seven diplomatic voyages to East Africa as far as Malindi (near Mombasa) between 1405 and 1433 during China's early Ming dynasty.
awdjZ TIL Bill Murray has starred in 9 out of 10 Wes Anderson movies, and has been in every one since the 1998 Rushmore.
KbOG TIL in the late 1980’s a young janitor at a recording studio started recording his own music after work, playing all the instruments. The janitor was Trent Reznor, and the music became Nine Inch Nails
wLpe1 TIL Ornithologists believe birds rub ants on their wings as the formic acid that the ants release may kill feather lice