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TIL modern fruit is becoming too sweet for zoo animals after years of genetic modification.

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wjG1 TIL In Japan, if you commit suicide by jumping in front of a Train, Rail Companies charge your family a fee.
0d9AL TIL that a depressed teen convinced his friend, using six made-up online characters, to kill him. Totaling over 56,000 lines of text, he told his him that his reward would be money, a job as a British secret service agent and sex with a middle-aged spy.
VorB TIL Peter Ostrum, who played “Charlie” in “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory”, only ever had one film role and made his living by becoming a veterinarian.
47R5 TIL Captain Hazelwood was widely portrayed as as a drunk captain who steered the Exxon Valdez aground in 1989. He was in his berth at the time of the collision, the drug test with his name was mishandled, and a search of the ship only turned up two beer bottles.
OGZO7 TIL a schoolteacher once got a kidney transplant where the donor was a chimpanzee. The teacher lived for nine months and in the autopsy, the chimp kidneys looked perfectly fine without any signs of rejection.