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TIL Mike Tyson offered a zoo attendant $10,000 to open the cage of a bullying gorilla so he could “smash that silverback’s snotbox.” His offer was declined.

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WkgLL TIL astronaut Wally Schirra would take pictures of his frozen pee as it floated through space, glinting with sunlight. The pee-flakes looked like a beautiful starfield, he said. One astronomer saw a photo & asked what constellation it was, and Schirra said "Jocelyn, that's the constellation Urion."
rNO5o TIL crystal methamphetamine (ice) is the most commonly abused narcotic in Hawaii. Majority of the supply is manufactured in California and Mexico. Approximately 80-90% of the meth seized in Hawaii is smuggled through the Honolulu Intl Airport via mailed parcels and couriers on commercial flights.
KYgZQ TIL the first publicly transmitted live trans-Atlantic program was broadcast via the Telstar satellite on July 23, 1962, at 3:00 pm EDT with Walter Cronkite as one of the main presenters in the multinational broadcast that included the Statue of Liberty and Eiffel Tower.
9YavM TIL the voice acting in the original Resident Evil was so bad because the English actors had no idea of the context of their lines and the Japanese devs picked whatever take sounded the best to them.
XErd8 TIL In the Welsh village Aberystwyth, Monty Python's Life of Brian was completely banned until 2008. It was un-banned by the new mayor - Sue Jones-Davies, who also played Brian's girlfriend in the film