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TIL, killer whales are actually a species of large dolphins!

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8a79Z TIL an orangutang in San Diego Zoo kept escaping his enclosure so that he could walk around the zoo and look at the other animals as well as throw faeces at his ex-enclosure mate that he didn’t like.
PYKag TIL that Metallica was the first band to perform on all seven continents by performing live and un-amplified (to protect the environment) in Antarctica.
yQkQl TIL that most animals are digitigrade, i.e., they walk on their digits or toes. Birds, cats, dogs etc are examples and what most people think are knees are actually their ankles. Humans are plantigrades ,i.e., they walk on the flats of their feet
PYkLw TIL about Queen Sunada kumariratana, a queen consort of Siam, who died with her daughter by drowning despite the presence of many witnesses. they were forbidden on pain of death to touch the queen, not even to save her life.
Z8VdG TIL In 1869 Wyoming Territory became the first government in the world to give women the right to vote.