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ZpyDG TIL about Tetrachromats - people with a special receptor in their retinas that allow them to see millions of colors that most of us can’t distinguish!
VBYeD TIL About Pink Floyd, a wild flamingo that escaped from a zoo in Wichita KS in 2005 and has been evading capture ever since.
XEdZj TIL Hatcher, the first Triceratops specimen to go on exhibit, was pieced together in 1905 from ten different fossilized specimens and became the centerpiece of the "Hall of Extinct Monsters," and later on underwent 3D replacement as a result of "pyrite disease" after 1998
oLpK TIL during the LA riots a group of Korean American business owners fought against looters and rioters with shotguns and semi-automatic weapons from the rooftops of their business.
XvpE TIL that after Free Willy was so successful, Warner Brothers Studios led an effort to find Keiko the Orca a better home