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TIL that the New Mexico Fish and Game department introduced several dozen South African Oryx in the 70s for novel hunting opportunities. The Oryx is now invasive in New Mexico, and there are thousands of them in the wild imbalancing ecosystems there.

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m1j1x TIL that the “eternal flame” at the JFK memorial was accidentally doused 15 days after it was lit in 1963 by kids pouring Holy water on it. It was extinguished one other time in 1967 when the transformer powering the spark igniter was flooded and shorted out during a rain storm.
ag1y TIL in 2008, Brazil made sex change surgeries free under their public health care system, ruling that sexual reassignment surgery was covered under a constitutional clause guaranteeing medical care as a basic right.
AN07a TIL that to save the Hawaiian culture and people from disappearing, Kalākaua, the last king of the Hawaiian kingdom, went on a world tour in 1881, and travelled to Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States, and he became the first reigning monarch to circumnavigate the globe.
QJ4la TIL Horses are the only mammals other than humans that can produce large amounts of sweat. Most of it is produced in their armpits
7rxNb TIL Since Michael Jackson didn't know how to read music or play an instrument he would compose songs inside of his head and then beatbox them to other musicians.