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TIL Koko the Gorilla loved Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. When Rogers met her, she hugged him and followed standard protocol based on what she’d seen on the show: she took his shoes off.

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4kbgR TIL the British Columbia Lottery Corp. was ordered to pay back hundreds of thousands of dollars to gamblers whose jackpots were withheld because they had won them after volunteering to ban themselves from casinos. The ruling only covered a 14 month period due to a change in law in 2010.
7rPZ7 TIL the character's name Fez from That 70s Show stands for Foreign Exchange Student because his real name was too hard to pronounce.
8YoG TIL that a duck’s feathers are so waterproof that even when the duck dives underwater, its downy underlayer of feathers will stay completely dry.
wLwpJ TIL one day Isaac Newton was asked by his colleagues why planets’ orbits are elliptical. He couldn’t answer so he went home and started thinking about it. A while later he invented differential and integral calculus, which he then used to answer the question.
MmxW TIL the dark spots of the moon are solidified seas of lava.