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TIL the first animal to ask an existential question was from a parrot named Alex. He asked what color he was, and learned that it was “grey”

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Ood7L TIL while filming a 170 foot waterfall in the movie Apocalypto, a cow was trying to cross upstream and went over the falls. It emerged at bottom, banging against the rocks, but after a local man swam in to calm the cow it then climbed up the bank and began eating grass as if nothing had happened.
kOeK5 TIL Hackers broke into Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter account. They say his password was 'dadada'.
ZpMPD TIL Up until 2014, the semi-fictional location of the Yakuza game series (神室町) had its own pseudo-radio station with the protagonists' original voice actors for moderators
4k6oR TIL about Leopold Karpeles, a Jewish immigrant who worked on the Underground Railroad then went on to recieve the Medal of Honor in the Civil War.
9YNbG TIL that the AI that beat the world’s best DOTA player did so only because it was a 1v1, forced the player to use the same hero it was using, had access to Dota’s API, and ended up losing multiple times after players switched strategy