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TIL the "spots" on a giraffe are actually the yellow part
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TIL that starting in 1988, the Harvard Medical School partnered with film and TV studios to insert the concept of the “Designated Driver” into popular consciousness. The project was a huge success.
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TIL of Cookie, a cockatoo who has been a resident of the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago since it opened in 1934. He will turn 82 in this coming June.
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TIL in 2002, South Park made an episode about how The Simpsons had already adapted nearly every possible story, called “Simpsons Already Did It”. The Simpsons have now made more episodes since that time than they had before it aired.
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Today I learned of Guugu Yimithirr, an Aboriginal language without words for egocentric/relative directions like "left and right." Rather its speakers are trained to keep track of pure cardinal directions. for example, saying "North leg" when referring to the left leg of an eastward facing person.
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TIL a couple were in the process of adopting a 1 yr old intersexed child with both male & female genitalia. While still in foster care, the state allowed a sexual reassignment surgery on the child. They removed his penis & testicles. The child now identifies as male. His parents are suing the state.