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TIL 10-20% of the world's population have allergies to cats or dogs. Even other animals, such as rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, ferrets and horses, can cause allergy symptoms.

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x67Jg TIL that a man in 1990 jumped into the chimpanzee enclosure to save a drowning chimp. Are there other similar stories where people have jumped into an animal enclosure to save an animal?
e0axJ TIL that if an Interstate is an odd number, it runs North and South and even numbered Interstates run East and West.
awWNb TIL Eric Yuan, the founder of Zoom Video Communications, got rejected visa 8 times. before he got approved to move to the US in the mid-1990s.
LQDrm TIL about the fall of Alan Magee. A B-17 ball turret gunner in World War II, Magee fell more than 20,000 feet without a parachute when his plane was destroyed by flak. He smashed through the roof of a French railroad station, survived, and spent the rest of the war in a prison camp.
vnDx TIL that the longest unbroken alliance in world history is between England and Portugal; it has been going for 631 years and still stands today.