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TIL of Kukur Tihar, a day of a Nepalese festival where everybody is nice to dogs and thanks them for being friends with us

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nLRG TIL of Ken Allen (1971–2000), an orangutan at the San Diego Zoo. Not only did he escape 3 times, his peers began following his example & escaped too. He outwitted zookeepers even when they posed as visitors. During his escapes, Ken would “peacefully stroll around the zoo looking at other animals.”
OGy41 TIL: Kimberly Vanvaeck, otherwise known as Gigabyte, wrote the first C# virus along with several other viruses after a long standing dispute with Graham Cluley who worked for an internet security firm. The dispute was due to Cluley making several comments about the gender of virus writers.
pLB8 TIL that the creator of mothers day spent the rest of her life trying to end it’s celebration and died without children in 1948
MeDZ0 TIL that in 1965-1966 a morbidly obese man named Angus Barbieri went 382 days without eating, losing 276lbs (125kg).
gMkyD TIL there is still someone in the US living in an iron lung