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TIL there are 4 species of giraffe and within the species, giraffes can also have a genetic condition called leucism which is a partial loss of pigmentation making them appear white with spots

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9E7m TIL that Oreo O’s were discontinued entirely in 2014 after the last company making them in South Korea intentionally contaminated them with E. coli.
091p TIL It’s completely legal for women to walk around topless in New York State
814Z TIL The record for the most passengers on an airplane was set in 1991 when 1086 Ethiopian jews were evacuated on a Boeing 747 to Jerusalem. The plane landed with 1088 passengers as two babies were born during the flight.
L4ed TIL that in the mid-1950s, the US government secretly tested chemical weapons on the citizens of St Louis.
kPB4 TIL there is a Chinese conceptual artist named Liu Bolin who specializes in making himself invisible in everyday surroundings.