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TIL that Hippo Milk is Pink!

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dDp6E TIL A human placenta is worth $50,000
kJ7ZW TIL about Patti Lyle Collins, head of the US Dead Letter Office. She was known for her ability to deciper hard to read or incomplete addresses on mail, such as being able to deduce that a letter addressed to "Presidente Sterite, Catimoa" was meant to go to "President Street, Baltimore".
VbLm TIL that Alexandre Vattemare, who created the first cultural exchange system between public libraries and museums, was a ventriloquist who trained as a surgeon, but was refused a diploma after making cadavers seem to speak during surgical exercises.
JYNe1 TIL Alan Rickman was originally offered to voice Lord Farquaad in Shrek but he turned it down to play Severus Snape
GYdaN TIL on 1958, Jimmy Wilson, a Black Alabama handyman, was sentenced to death for a $1.95 robbery