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TIL: There were once Africans on display in the Bronx Zoo

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MeKga TIL of Action park, a New Jersey theme park that was known to have so many accidents in the 1980s, 5-10 victims on the busiest days, that park authority bought the nearby town of Vernon extra ambulances to keep up with the number of injured. At least 6 people died there.
gr07 TIL that the Fresh Prince actually flew first class from Philly to Bel Air in a verse that got cut for TV. This whole time I thought he took the smelly cab the whole way.
OoV46 TIL that Bill Nye's mother was a WWII Codebreaker and science whiz
5llB TIL that russian peasants used to practice 6 month periods of psudo hibernation each and every year to stave off starvation and famine. It was called the ‘Winter Sleep’ or 'lotska’.
a8JRZ TIL Disney World in Florida, USA contains a critical corridor that wildlife like Florida panthers use to travel across central Florida. Though construction blocked wildlife, Walt Disney had designed a corridor going through the park which remains today.