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TIL Gorillas hum happy songs when they eat. “And if it’s their favourite food, they sing louder.”

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rNJGy TIL Railway Post Office cars sorted and delivered mail on moving trains, using hooks to catch mailbags without stopping. The last service ended in 1977, but remnants still exist along decommissioned tracks. At its peak, 9,000 trains covered 200,000 miles of mail routes.
GAkPj TIL On Christmas Eve 1969, Francisco Macias Nguema had 186 suspected dissidents executed in the national football stadium in Malabo with the executioners dressed as Santa Claus, with the amplifiers played Mary Hopkin's song "Those Were the Days".
dd8K TIL there’s a show called “IKEA Heights” that is filmed entirely in an IKEA without the stores permission
69bOW TIL that astronomers observed a spot on Jupiter between 1665 and 1713, but there were no further mentions of a spot until 1831. Scientists believe that the two spots were likely different phenomena, in which case the current Great Red Spot would only be around 200 years old.
grj79 TIL that Mantis Shrimp have a second pair of thoracic appendages that are adapted for powerful close-range combat; their claws can accelerate at a rate comparable to that of a .22 caliber bullet when fired.