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TIL gorillas have been observed dismantling snares after a member of their troop was killed by one

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4X0yw TIL that the British government admits to undertaking aerial release trials against it's own people, in an attempt to understand the spread of possible biological attacks
8apxV TIL in May 2007, a man was singing the song "My Way" during karaoke and was shot and killed as he sang. The security guard was complaining that the man's rendition was off-key, and when the victim refused to stop singing, the guard pulled out a .38-caliber pistol and shot the man dead.
nWnyB TIL of the 9th century poet al-Khubzârruzi "the rice-bread baker". He could nor read nor write, customers would come to his bakery to hear him recite his poems.
v18PD TIL that 36 million people live in Siberia
VM51m TIL In 1896, Martha Hughes Cannon became the first female State Senator elected in the United States after defeating her own polygamist husband, Angus M. Cannon, who was also on the ballot.