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TIL a Zoo Keeper helped a constipated monkey pass a peanut by licking its ass for an hour.

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DQdlj TIL about the Battle of Christiana, in which a group of armed freedmen fought a party of federal marshals to defend escaped slaves, killing the slaves former owner who had shouted; "I will have my property, or go to hell!". Everyone involved was later acquitted and the slaves escaped to Canada.
P1pXn TIL that the most consecutive games played between two MLB team is 11. Detroit and St. Louis faced off eleven straight times in September of 1904.
vP8e7 TIL Prolific author, screenwriter and filmmaker Michael Crichton wrote a video game called Amazon for the Apple II series computer in 1984
MWEW TIL Abraham Lincoln created the Secret Service on the same day he was assassinated
KaKw TIL after Lenny Bruce died cops wanted his body and death scene to look more like a junkie for news photographers. They posed him, pulled his pants down, and put a box of syringes by his body.