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TIL that the okapi or forest giraffe or zebra giraffe or Congo giraffe is the only species in the genus Okapia and the okapi and the giraffe are the only living members of the family Giraffidae.

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b8Ja TIL 3M engineers inadvertently built a force field under a huge roll of fast moving tape strong enough to act like an impenetrable wall.
EvJd TIL Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, was a victim of the infamous MK Ultra experiments.
gjL8 TIL despite the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, Ukraine still gets 47% of its electricity from nuclear energy, compared to United States’ 19%.
1ar7r TIL when the U.S. refused to sell jet fighters to them in the early 80s due to treaties and pressure from China, Taiwan developed and produced their own, the Indigenous Defense Fighter (IDF).
4Xxm5 TIL that while the blueprints to the Saturn V rockets still exist, the manufacturing industries that built them do not, making building new ones prohibitively expensive.