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TIL of Ponso, a roughly 40-year-old chimp, who was dumped on an abandoned island off the Ivory Coast more than 30 years ago after being used for medical testing. He relies on the kindness of a nearby villager, Germain, who’s dropped off bananas and bread for him ever since he was left to die

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5rNp TIL Eminem is a huge fan of Donkey Kong, and owns two Donkey Kong machines autographed by engineer Steve Wiebe. His hiscore of 465,800 ranks him among the 30 best players of all time.
wLVD1 TIL Gwen Stacy was killed off in the Spider-Man comics because Stan Lee was in a rush to get to a meeting in Europe; Wanting to get his writers out of his office, he told them, "If that's what you wanna do, okay," without realizing what he'd just agreed to. He came back to find Gwen dead.
6989W TIL: of "Raining Blobs in Oakville,"** a phenomenon that occurred in Oakville, Washington, in 1994, where gelatinous blobs fell from the sky. These biomass blobs were at first reported to contain human white blood cells, while this was debunked their origin remains a mystery
oRAPK TIL Birds trained for Hitchcock's The Birds couldn't be untrained. They stayed killer birds.
p8oMO TIL A Female Kangaroo has Three (3) Vaginas, & they can have a simultaneous dual pregnancies and give birth to a joey on separate months of a year.