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TIL an oil change for a Bugatti Veyron costs $21,000 and takes approximately 27 hours.

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6dx8 TIL that an orangutan named Fu Manchu repeatedly escaped from his cage at the zoo using a key he had fashioned from a piece of wire. Every time his zookeepers inspected him, he hid the key in his mouth.
x7jw TIL a chimpanzee named Frodo has impregnated his own mother, killed a human infant, attacked cartoonist Gary Larson, and beat the head of primatologist Jane Goodall so badly, he almost broke her neck.
nWyv7 TIL Neil Hope, the Canadian actor who played Wheels on Degrassi High, had died from a heart attack back in 2007 but wasn't properly identified until 2012.
x6Byk TIL Those videos with people crying after having their colorblindness cured by putting on special glasses were fake.
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