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TIL - Michael, a gorilla that could use sign language to communicate, described seeing his mother shot.

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kOYK7 TIL Big Bird is a Golden Condor. During an episode in the 11th season of Mr. Rogers, Big Bird was asked if he was related to a cassowary, and Big Bird noted to Mr. Rogers that he was a Golden Condor.
m1K6O TIL that before he teamed up with Cheech, Tommy Chong played guitar for Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers, a Canadian soul group who had a minor hit in 1968 called "Does Your Mama Know About Me"
RxK1 TIL ‘Cheez-Its’ are actually not squares, they are considered rectangles. Two of the four sides are 2 millimeters longer than the others.
R7on8 TIL the Tesseract, or Hypercube, isn't the only 4 dimensional shape, and there are 5 others recognized as Regular, including one with 600 corners.
9Y79Q TIL of Richard Lee McNair - A criminal who escaped prison, then got stopped by a police officer while on the run and convinced him that he was just a jogger passing by