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TIL there was such a thing as Woolly Rhinos

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OGyK4 TIL that a pub in London was illegally demolished just days before it was to be listed as an historic site. They developer was forced to rebuild it brick by brick to its original state.
VMEXD TIL that the 1983 'Inspector Gadget' TV series is the first animated television series to be presented in stereo sound.
loBda TIL that when the body of Layne Staley - the lead singer of Alice In Chains - was discovered, it weighed 86 pounds. He was 6 ft. tall and suffered from depression, and addiction to speed and cocaine.
wbk8 TIL Harold Williams a 20th Century Linguist and Journalist spoke 58 languages and learnt Serbian in two days. He amazed delegates at the League of Nations by speaking to each in their own language.
eGX4 TIL In 1990 a man jumped into a Detroit Zoo Chimpanzee enclosure to rescue a drowning chimp