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TIL that giant pandas were removed from the Endangered Species list

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VMKLp TIL of "firehawks", birds in Australia that use burning sticks to hunt for food.
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6E76Y TIL that John F. Kennedy was on 12 different medications a day during his presidency, just to enable him to face the day.
5YPaB TIL Carl Sagan's team wanted to include the Beatles song "Here Comes the Sun" on the Voyager Golden Records (discs containing greetings in 60 languages, music and sounds from Earth aboard both Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977), but the record company EMI, which held the copyrights, declined.
B7ML TIL After President Kennedy’s autopsy, his brain, tissue slides and other autopsy materials immediately disappeared and have not been found since