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TIL that over a dozen employees charged with caring for “Koko” the gorilla have reported that she is not adequately cared for and suffers significant neglect

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awZJo TIL that Giant Anteaters have killed people. There have been 2 documented attacks in the wild both resulted in the death of people hunting them. The anteaters slashed at the hunters with their long claws, hitting the femoral artery, making the victims bleed to death.
WJb9 TIL Billionaire from Pakistan, Owner of Jacksonville Jaguars and Fulham F.C spent his first night in a $2/night room at the University Y-YMCA, and his first job was washing dishes for $1.20 an hour.
80ZX TIL In a speech about peace talks with Japan after WWII, the Sri Lankan Finance Minister refused reparations even though their economy was damaged by the Japanese because he believed ‘hatred ceases not by hatred but by love’. The speech was met with resounding applause
d7Yr TIL a writer tested how hard it was for unknowns to get published by querying the National Book Award winning novel “Steps”. All thirteen agents and fourteen publishers rejected it, including Random House, which had published the book but didn’t recognize it.
1LyP TIL that on April 6th, 1926 a boy named Phillip McClean was killed when he and his brother came across a Cassowary bird on their property. They tried to kill it, but it kicked Philip in the neck, cutting him, and he bled to death. McClean is the only person to be killed by a Cassowary.