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TIL Albino Africans live in constant fear of being butchered for body parts.

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mLyx TIL of a girl named Laura Buxton who released a balloon with her name on it that landed in the yard of another girl also named Laura Buxton. They also have the same color hair, are in the same grade, have black three-year-old female Labrador dogs and a rabbit and identical guinea pigs each.
NZ08 TIL the Flemish anthem of Belgium is exceptionally bloody: “He tears, destroys, crushes, covers in blood and mud; And in victory grins over his enemy’s trembling corpse.”
g5b7 TIL a working-class couple in Harlem with no expertise amassed a collection of art worth over $10 million by slowly buying works directly from up-and-coming artists. Their strategy? “We bought what we liked”
W7kp4 TIL one of the biggest naval evacuations in history happened on 9/11, even bigger than Dunkirk.
pYe0G TIL Stephen Crowder played “The Brain” from the cartoon series Arthur when he was 14.