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TIL San Diego Zoo had an orangutan named Ken who escaped several times. During his escapes, he just wandered around the zoo & looked at all the animals in their enclosures. One time, he went to the enclosure of another orangutan he disliked & threw rocks at him.

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oQVY TIL a scientist got a call from his dad saying that the wetlands they used to visit together were extremely polluted and would disappear. He went back and created a recovery project. Paying 90% of expenses by himself he started to clean the lake, and 3 years later thousands of birds had returned.
E1Dn0 TIL that people who are prone to staying up past midnight and sleeping in til the afternoon could possibly have a circadian rhythm dysfunction known as Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder.
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