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TIL the world’s oldest ever flamingo was badly beaten by four teenagers, survived, and lived another 5 years to the age of 83.

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yQE9e TIL On Oct 30, 2005, Rosa Parks, civil rights pioneer, was mourned when her casket was placed in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol for two days. She was the first woman and the second African-American to lie in state there. She was the 31st person and the first American not a U.S. government official.
4PMR TIL of Rhythm 0, a six-hour work by performance artist Marina Abramović. The audience was invited to do whatever they wished to and/or with the artist, using one of 72 objects she had placed on a table for this purpose including a rose, feather, scalpel, metal bar, and a gun loaded with one bullet.
nRnG TIL of Guevedoces, people who exist only in a small community in the Dominican Republic. They are boys who are born without male sex organs, looking mostly identical to girls until puberty when their male sex organs grow in.
kOVle TIL about Stage Coach Mary - 63 year old, gunslinging, booze drinking, cigar smoking, fist fighting freed slave - and first black woman is U.S. history to deliver the mail.
m1WBv TIL about the "Tokyo Tower of Babel," a proposed 10 Kilometer tall tower that was designed to house up to 30 million people and was intended to be built in Tokyo Bay. If completed, it would have been the tallest structure in the world, but it remains an ambitious concept.