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TIL adult hippos can’t swim

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OoeAe TIL conductor Mstislav Rostropovich was exiled from the U.S.S.R. for supporting Democracy. When he returned in 1990, he closed his first performance in the Moscow Conservator with “The Stars and Stripes Forever” to great ovation
d8ELd TIL Muhammad Ali’s daughter, Maryum Ali was a support worker for 15 years working in high crime neighbourhoods. She was on the TV show ’60 Days In’ and spent 2 months as an undercover inmate. She also wrote a children's picture book called 'I Shook Up The World: The Incredible Life of Muhammad Ali.'
D1ljv TIL Pfizer seized the homes of a poor neighborhood in New London, Connecticut in 2000 to build a new research facility. Long after the homes were bulldozed, Pfizer abandoned its plans, leaving behind a wasteland.
aLv9 TIL there is a tribe in India that has learned how to train the roots of fig trees to create natural suspension bridges that can span over 100 feet, and last 500-600 years.
KgRG TIL that escapes from prison by helicopter are not only a real thing, but that some criminals have escaped from prison Multiple times by helicopter