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Short answer: It's an adorable means of self-protection.
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TIL that gorillas fart almost all the time because their diet consists almost entirely of plant matter which produces large amounts of gas when digested.
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TIL of Henry Trigg, a 17th century grocer whose will requested to have his body placed in a coffin in his barn's rafters. Copies of his will were sold, and WWI soldiers later stole his bones. A horse-riding school replaced them with horse bones, explaining that having no bones would lose revenue.
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TIL: How North America made Britain fund their own invasion by Napolean(Part of the War of the Third Coalition)
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TIL That the oldest page still on the internet was from October 1st 1991.
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TIL Rüppell's vulture is considered to be the highest-flying bird, with confirmed evidence of a flight at an altitude of 11,300 m above sea level, when it collided with a plane.