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TIL that gorillas learn to be mothers when they are babies

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rlnM TIL that Angkor Wat in Cambodia is the largest religious structure in the world. It is 80 times bigger than St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City, and at least 3.5 times bigger than the Vatican City itself.
kJLMg TIL Michael Jordan told director Ben Affleck that Viola Davis "has to" play his mom in Affleck's film Air. Casting Davis in a film was a lifelong career ambition for Affleck. When she said yes, he concluded that "a lot of it had to do with me being like, 'Michael Jordan wants you to play his mom.'”
Y7rr TIL “Manute Bol is the tallest player in the history of the National Basketball Association. He is also the only player in the NBA to have killed a lion with a spear and to have paid 80 cows for his wife.”
BrJ4L TIL: The infamous & ill fated Gallipoli campaign of WWI, to capture the Dardanelles from the Turks, was the idea of then First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill.
KDPQ TIL in 1938 the Muslim King Zog of Albania opened Albania’s borders to Jews fleeing Nazi persecution. King Zog reputedly survived 55 assassination attempts.