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TIL Gary Larson received some backlash for 'The Far Side' comic which has a female gorilla finding a hair on a male and asking, 'Conducting some research with that Jane Goodall tramp?' A rep from the Jane Goodall Institute complained, but Goodall herself later said she thought the comic was funny

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bGMj TIL the top speed of the Bugatti Veyron is limited not by the engine, but rather its tires exploding.
wL7eE TIL of John Taylor, a charlatan from the 18th century, parading from town to town doing bogus eye operations, and allegedly blinding hundreds of people, including famous composers Handel, and Bach.
1amNr TIL that in 1943 Black and white American soliders got into a firefight with each other after British locals refused to enforce the U.S. Army's racial segregation policies and allowed the Black soliders to drink at any pub in town
6x8X TIL the design of the Space Shuttle was influenced by the United States Air Force, which wanted the ability to snatch Soviet spy satellites out of orbit.
DDZj TIL One man single handedly converted a washed out land into a 1,360 acre forest. The forest is now home to tigers & rhinoceros too