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TIL the oldest known zoo dates to c. 3500 BC in ancient Egypt.

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Oowee TIL there is a herd of wild zebras in central California that can be seen off of Route 1 near San Simeon.
rg54 TIL that photographer Michal Huniewicz overrode his camera’s firmware to hide & not delete photos while he was in North Korea. He did this because guards & officials would take his camera from time to time & delete photos. This override allowed him to bring back these rare pictures of North Korea.
YOVB TIL Dr. Gay Hitler, son of George Washington Hitler, was a local dentist in Circleville, Ohio, and served the community from 1922 through 1946. Many roads in the area still contain the word ‘Hitler’ through this family.
xVdYw TIL that in 1895 a swarm of Rocky Mountain locust, measuring 1,800 miles long and 110 miles wide, blocked out the sun for five days. Thirty years later the locust was extinct.
yQwKl TIL Upon the Debut of Apple Maps, in Sept 2012, Users reported numerous errors such as redirecting UK user's searches of London to its smaller namesake London, Ontario , mislabelling a small Irish park as an airport & completely wiping out certain cities