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TIL motorcyclists are almost 30X more likely to die than other motorists

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jykQ TIL that an orangutan kept escaping from his cage at the zoo using a key he had madr from a piece of wire. Every time the zookeepers inspected him, he hid the key in his mouth!
x6DMb TIL that Shakespeare might’ve actually been a black jewish woman, her name Emilia Bassano, who was thought to be the mastermind behind all of Shakespeare’s writings. I’m still in awe.
Y766P TIL the typical loss on reselling a diamond is between 25% and 50% of its original purchase price, and even less as a percentage of appraisal value.
8epmV TIL, that because Mars father is Jupiter and Jupiters father is Saturn, Johann Bode proposed that the 7th planet should be named after Jupiters father. Bode was unaware of the fact that Uranus was the greek and not roman god. There are now 6 planets named after roman gods and 1 named after a greek.
QyQL TIL that in 1944, General Patton was placed in charge of a fake invasion force that consisted entirely of actors, and the Germans fell for it completely