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

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8aLna TIL that Indian wild Dog - Dhole, canid native to sub-continent have mating ritual and procedure different from every other species of the canine family. Females take a low bent position like Cats and they do not get locked up like others but assume a cemi-circular posture laying in the ground.
P1JZ TIL the Tesla Model S is road tested on an indoor track because their cars don’t produce any emissions.
EgE0x TIL about Reza Baluchi, a Florida man who attempted to walk across the water from his home state to New York in a homemade ‘bubble device’ - he washed ashore, in Florida, after one day
wGKM TIL That after three days of discovering Kurt Cobain’s body, the stereo at the scene of his death was still on with an R.E.M. CD in place suggesting Kurt Cobain killed himself while listening to R.E.M.
79lx TIL 35 GBs of Titanfall’s total file size of 49 GBs is uncompressed audio because the engineers thought the minimum specification CPU couldn’t handle decompressing the audio.