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TIL in 2023 a Gibbon in a zoo in Japan got pregnant through a glory hole

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78MBx TIL that the Love Death & Robots episode Life Hutch is set in the same universe as the legendary The Outer Limits episode Demon With A Glass Hand. Both are set against the backdrop of Harlan Ellison's Earth-Kyba-War.
9Y0AG TIL cartoonist Otto Eppers was charged with attempted suicide after surviving a jump off of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1910. A judge dismissed the charge commenting “Well, he seems very much alive, doesn't he?”
Wkg8X TIL The nine-headed bird, also called the "Nine Phoenix", is one of the earliest forms of the Chinese phoenix, worshiped by ancient natives in Hubei Province. Due to the hostile relationship between the Kingdom of Chu and its former overlord, the nine-headed bird was demonised as a result
WWDX TIL the word Britain is derived from Pretain meaning “painted” - originally because the Britons had tatoos.
yQXxe TIL the Star Fleet logo (from Star Trek) is based off the delta symbol. The symbol was first used as early as 1942 by the U.S. Army Air Forces and was used in early Air Force space organization emblems dating back to 1961.