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TIL that orangutans are very gentle and solitary animals. Males live 90% of their long lifespans alone, only spending a few days with a female to mate before going back into seclusion.

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e0Or4 TIL the Delaware Aqueduct, which provides half of New York City's fresh water, has been leaking up to 35 million gallons of water per day since at least the 1990s.
e0jGE TIL A study on theft has indicated that most thieves are active only for a short period of time and make very little money at it. In fact, theft looks not so much like a way of getting free stuff or money as a stage some people experience in adolescence — and most grow out of it.
8VGP TIL that a 15 year old hacker hacked into the computers of the Department of Defense & NASA, gaining access to critical ISS code, and later committed suicide because of having ‘no faith in the justice system’
ADZDB TIL there in an organism which lives in the ocean floor, which reproduces every 10,000 years, and is perhaps millions of years old.
1YvV TIL That the walrus, despite seeming so lazy, actually sleeps the least of any animal. They can go up to 84 hours without sleep, all while swimming and hunting.