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TIL that gorillas purr

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ywoa TIL there is a salt dumping ground in Germany that has formed an actual mountain and is poisoning the surrounding environment.
KJY9 TIL that German journalists have a word, “widow shaking” for the practice of aggressively getting sob story material from relatives of disaster or crime victims.
YpjRB TIL Oskar Saville, a former lead singer of 10,000 Maniacs after Natalie Merchant departed, is now a "transformational energy coach” with rates of $10,000 for 4 months worth of emails and text messages
9wNPM TIL that the discovery of viruses started from a mysterious disease that affected tobacco crops in the Netherlands at the end of 1800s. A Dutch microbiologist named Beijerinck proved that filtrated sap from plants was still infectious, and called it "contagious, living fluid".
lo6AK TIL Michelangelo was around 23 years old when he created the Pieta sculpture