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TIL in 2013, Costa Rica announced it would close all its zoos, effective March 2014, and free animals either to the wild or to safe “retirement” shelters. Officials say this is a response to “a change of environmental conscience among Costa Ricans”

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R77Wa TIL Japan has a special group of hobbyists who call themselves “Man-Holers”. They collect manhole cover designs from past decades.
Y9W TIL that rapper, Chiddy Bang, broke the Guinness World Record for Longest Freestyle Rap as well as the Longest Marathon Rapping Record after freestyle rapping for 9 hours, 18 minutes and 22 seconds.
KOB8a TIL Henry Ford anti-semitic propaganda was likely the most sustained printed attacks on Jews the world had ever seen at his time -“I regard Henry Ford as my inspiration,” Hitler told the News.
0d6pL TIL about the skull of a 14 year-old girl believed to be a victim of cannibalism “starving time” at the Jamestown colony in the winter of 1609. Butchery marks can be seen on the skull.
6EJgZ TIL: Late wrestler Bam Bam Bigelow once saved three children from a burning house and 40% of his skin was left with second degree burns forcing him to retire and hospitalized for two months. Bam Bam said he had "no regrets" of his act of courage, as long as all three kids were safe.