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TIL that since the Chernobyl disaster, the area inside the ‘exclusion zone’ has become home to hundreds of wild animals such as deer, owls, boars, bears and beavers.

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oRYRY TIL the monkeys at Australia's Melbourne Zoo have been put on a banana-free diet because selective breeding of the fruit has made it too sugary. The issue being that cultivated fruits have been genetically modified to be much higher in sugar content than their natural, ancestral fruits.
wLVZ8 TIL Zika has all but disappeared because the majority of people in the affected countries are likely immune.
ZpgrR TIL in 1959 a white man from Texas disguised himself as a black man and traveled for six weeks on greyhound buses. After publishing his experiences with racism he was forced to move to Mexico for several years due to death threats.
oRn7E TIL that Richard II is the first English monarch for whom a contemporary painting survives.
6EpmZ TIL - Hermit crabs swap their shells