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TIL That Hippos eat meat, and are not purely herbivores!

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KOmJw TIL that the comedy Taking Care of Business (aka: Filofax) in 1990 that starred James Belushi and Charles Grodin was actually the first screenplay written by J. J. Abrams who later went on to make the Star Trek and Star Wars films
Bepx TIL France tried stop Amazon offer free shipping to its customers by fining them €1,000 per day. Amazon continued to pay the fines instead of ending its policy of offering free shipping. After law was created banning free shipping, Amazon effectively snubbed it by charging one cent for delivery.
mx4WY TIL during the Middle Ages, wild wolves lived in forests near Paris. During the harsh winter of 1450, a pack of hungry wolves managed to enter to city and ate 40 people.
DQ7JP TIL that the biggest bird sculpture in the world is 200 feet long, 150 feet wide and 70 feet high.
e0Krg TIL that honeybees let out a ‘whoop’ when they bump into each other. This vibrational pulse, long thought to be a signal to other bees to stop what they are doing, might actually be an expression of surprise