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TIL there was a gorilla named Micheal who learned sign language then described what it was like to watch his mother be killed by poachers

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97yB TIL that scholar Theodore Roszak believes that a weekday edition of the New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England. (Fixed to meet rules)
ADYNo TIL the largest brick building in the Americas is located on an uninhabited island 68 miles west of Key West.
OovG4 TIL There’s cyanide inside avocado pits and apple seeds
NXkG6 TIL Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle was originally supposed to be about a quest to find Krispy Kreme donuts, but the food was changed to White Castle hamburgers after Krispy Kreme refused to allow the film to use their name.
A6Od TIL ketchup originated in China as a boiled-down brine of pickled fish and spices called ‘ke-chiap’.