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TIL in 2000 the LA Zoo had an issue containing two gorillas, Evelyn & Jim, who were both skilled escapists. Evelyn once used a vine to swing across a 12-ft wide moat to spent 90 min watching giraffes & elephants. Previously she swatted a person's behind. Jim once jumped straight over a 12-ft wall.

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kOwmB TIL Armadillos give birth to identical quadruplets every time
gJO8 TIL there was an 18th-century racehorse named Potoooooooo. His name was originally Potatoes, but when his owner told the stable boy to write his name on a feed bin, he misheard it as “pot-eight-o’s”. The owner found it so funny that he kept it as the horse’s name.
9Grr TIL in 2011, a man found a penguin covered with oil and nearly dead. He was able to save its life. Every year since, the penguin swims 5,000 miles to meet and live with him in Brazil.
W7yEo TIL: that the average American, based on averages from all states, will pay an estimated $130,461 over their lifetime in interest fees.
E1Roo TIL that it was Napoleon’s army that discovered the Rosetta Stone. Which was the key to unlocking the code of Egyptian hieroglyphics, a language that had been dead for 2000 years.