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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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5YQBp TIL Tyrannosaurus rex was originally thought to have walked fully upright like a kangaroo, and was posed this way in numerous books and movies until the 1970s. Jurassic Park helped present a revised depiction of its posture to the public.
7OLP TIL Lion tamers use chairs because lions are wired mentally to focus on one thing and attack it, with the four prongs of a chair coming at it, it totally flips its shit and backs off.
neORr TIL: There are no green mammals and they cannot make green pigment.
ADyad TIL 110 years ago Dr Charles Campbell constructed 30 feet high bat roost to fight malaria. Bats that lived in the roost ate the mosquitoes and Mitchell's lake municipality was malaria-free in 4 years.
BrPnW TIL in 1963 Italian engineers underestimated the effects of a controlled landslide they’d planned, resulting in a shockwave 2x the intensity of Hiroshima, instantly pulverizing thousands of people & causing a 820ft tsunami to travel down a mountain, turning the town beneath to a “large muddy crater”