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TIL Samuel L. Jackson was an usher at Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral

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b6Z69 TIL On average, captive animals (especially mammals) live longer than wild animals, and animals with shorter lifespans/faster growth rates benefit more from zoos than animals with higher longevities/slow growth rates.
QJ66 TIL hog-nosed snakes will feign death by rolling on their back, and when rolled upright will roll back again as if to insist they’re really dead.
kJ4xd TIL Jeffrey Dahmer converted to Christianity after being baptized by a pastor named Roy Ratcliff. Dahmer met with Ratcliff every week to discuss the Bible until he was murdered 14 months later. Ratcliff described Dahmer as a truly changed man.
kmRB TIL that because of an old superstition, several ravens are kept at the Tower of London at all times. These ravens are enlisted soldiers of the Kingdom, and have occasionally been dismissed for bad conduct. While wild ravens live for 10-15 years, Tower ravens can live past 40 years.
dDWZj TIL Asiatic lions "do" live in the jungle.