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TIL Mountain gorillas are naturally afraid of chameleons and nobody knows why.

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e0VE TIL a US court upheld the argument that rape is an occupational hazard of military service.
6EQwl TIL of the F-11 Tiger, which during flight tests managed to shoot itself down with 20mm rounds fired from his own cannon
Z5VB TIL that William Wallace had a sword scabbard made from the skin of Hugh de Cressingham
d8PK7 TIL that Klaus Kinski was so difficult to work with during the filming of "Aguirre" that Werner Herzog had to threaten to shoot him dead if he tried to leave the set.
4kB0b TIL that, in 1604, King James I wrote ‘A Counterblaste to Tobacco’, in which he described smoking as a ‘custome lothesome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs