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TIL of Stoffel—a Honey Badger in a South African wildlife center who’s escaped his enclosure twice to fight the lions in the exhibit beside his, built towers out of rocks and sticks to climb over his wall, and, when introduced with a mate, stood on her head to unlock the gate and get out once again.

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W7xd TIL that Don Francisco, the host of Univision’s Sabado Gigante for 50 years, is actually a German Jew. (Happy 50th, Sabado Gigante!)
rjAx TIL of Paraprosdokian, a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that forces the reader or listener to reinterpret the first part. An example being, “On the other hand, you have different fingers”
kO4R5 TIL I learned that Zazu (that hornbill bird) from Disney’s The Lion King was voiced by Rowan Atkinson aka Mr. Bean.
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YpOxW TIL the reason why refrigerators are magnetized. Until the Refrigerator Safety Act in 1956 refrigerators could only open from the outside and many children died from getting trapped inside them.