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TIL that in 2009, snipers were deployed in Australia to protect a colony of little penguins from predators.

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wLn7 TIL that a baboon named Fu Manchu repeatedly escaped from his cage at the zoo using a key he had fashioned from a piece of wire. Every time his zookeepers inspected him, he hid the key in his mouth.
7r5QO TIL that Harbor Freight Pittsburg clamps can be reversed to spread things instead of just clamping...
VBlRk TIL of Francis Bowes Sayre Jr., grandson of U.S. president Woodrow Wilson. Unlike his grandfather, who authorized and imposed widespread federal segregation, Francis was a fierce opponent of segregation, going so far as to march alongisde Martin Luther King Jr. from Selma to Montgomery.
nW9Oo TIL of Chief Tuskaloosa, the giant Paramount Chieftain of modern day Alabama, who was killed in combat with the forces of Spanish Conquistador Hernando de Soto in 1540. The modern city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama is named in his honor.
nWl5W TIL trash bags were only invented in 1950, so there are plenty of people alive who predate them, and who may have grown up without them.