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TIL The Yellowstone National Park Bison Herd is the only population of American bison in the United States to have lived continuously in the wild from prehistoric times

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696Em TIL the planet Neptune isn't deep blue, and looks closer in color to Uranus; the correct shades of the planets have been confirmed in a study published in September 2023
YpAVP TIL The modern conspiracy - The Illuminati, was an art project/protest in the late 60's by a political theorist and a staffer at Playboy to show the public how ridiculous and disempowering it was to think a group of secretive people controlled the world.
RGOw TIL Saddam Hussein kept a torture chamber in the basement of the Iraqi mission on the Upper East Side of NYC across the street from Michael Bloomberg’s house. People who died there had their bodies mailed back to Iraq in diplomatic shipments.
ALk7 TIL: Martin Luther King Jr. plagiarized a significant portion of his doctoral dissertation from a dissertation written by another student three years earlier. King also plagiarized a portion of his “I Have a Dream” speech from Archibald Carey Jr.’s address to the 1952 Republican National Convention.
pYxMZ TIL Chen Mengjia, who opposed the Communist government's proposal to simplify Chinese characters. During the Anti-Rightist Movement, he was labeled a Rightist and sent to a labor camp. In 1966, at the start of the Cultural Revolution, he faced severe persecution again and committed suicide.