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TIL six babies survived after being trapped up to seven days in collapsed hospital during a Mexico City earthquake.

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8mya TIL every year thousands of Great White Sharks congregate in a remote area of the Pacific Ocean. No one knows why.
X9Dk TIL that in 1976, after two U.S. Army Officers were killed by North Korean soldiers while tree trimming in the Joint Security Area, America and South Korea responded with “Operation Paul Bunyan” in which they brought a 813 man team, attack helicopters and fighter jets to chop the tree down.
7rEAL TIL: There's a Gorilla in Japan who is famous for being so handsome that women go ape over him. Shibani the Gorilla is so ikemen (a really good looking guy) that he was made the official spokesman for the Higashiyama Zoo.
v1m7K TIL that there is a place in England called Barton in the Beans
XEyA6 TIL that since Icelandic horses are not immune to the same diseases that the European horses are, once an Icelandic horse leaves the island it may never return.