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TIL the salt flats of western India have a "Wild Ass Sanctuary", meant for the endangered "Indian wild ass".

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joVn TIL the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles didn’t get color-specific masks until their first cartoon aired in 1988
d0p8 TIL of Vexations, a piano piece meant to be played 840 times in a row, that takes roughly 18 hours to play and one man who attempted to solo it quit after 15 hours because he was hallucinating.
Qjnp TIL that while a person who inherits two copies of a cystic fibrosis mutation has a terrible disease, someone who only has one (a carrier) has an inborn resistance to cholera, typhoid fever, and tuberculosis. This is an example of heterozygote advantage.
nexo TIL the real boss of the DiMeo/Soprano Crime Family from The Sopranos was Ericole DiMeo, who is incarcerated for the duration of the series, never appears on-screen, and is only mentioned in five episodes. Jackie Aprile, Junior, and Tony were only acting bosses.
aQpy TIL The song “This Land is Your Land” by Woody Guthrie was written in critical response to “God Bless America”.