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TIL that the oldest giraffe living under human care spent most of her life in Lufkin, Texas.

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VMexB TIL that explosive cartridges can be inserted into a B-52 bomber's engines to get them up and running more quickly, if needed. The "cart start" reduces takeoff time from about an hour down to ten minutes.
JEWQ TIL that when Nebraska first brought in a ‘safe haven law’ allowing the legal abandonment of children at hospitals, teenagers were being dropped off and left, this was due to the legislators forgetting to define the age limit.
ANWM7 TIL that in 1684 Henry Morgan the "privateer" successfully sued the publishers of the books on piracy in the Caribbean for libel; as a result, the description of Morgan using nuns and monks as human shields were purged from subsequent British editions of "History of the Buccaneers of America"
XbpP TIL about thirteen-year-old Yoko Moriwaki the “Japanese Anne Frank,” who kept a diary about her life during WWII. She was killed by the atomic bomb in her home town of Hiroshima and her diary was later published by her brother.
d8yN8 TIL about "court dwarfs". Some of the first dwarfs to have their histories recorded were employed as court dwarfs. They were owned and traded amongst people of the court, and delivered as gifts to fellow kings and Queens . Royals appeared much larger and visually enhanced their powerful position.