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TIL Osama Bin Laden was scammed out of $1.5 Million while trying to buy weapons-grade uranium

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GYR6J TIL about "spider goats", which are goats that have been given spider silk-spinning genes so that they produce a protein in their milk that can be extracted to produce silk.
mxVoY TIL about James Reavis, also known as "The Baron of Arizona," who almost swindled the U.S. government out of the entirety of Arizona. He forged numerous papers in Spain, Mexico, and the U.S. to prove that he "inherited" the land from a fictional family
GYjX4 TIL The only White Giraffe on the planet is found in Kenya and is fitted with a GPS system to detect poachers
16pWW TIL that there's a museum in Japan that's dedicated to rocks that look like human faces!
Zxr4 TIL that the word “canvas” is derived from the word “cannabis” because canvas used to be made from hemp fiber.