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

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J1g4V TIL In Breton it was said that the last person to die in the village before midnight of the New Year would be the guardian of the graveyard and Grim Reaper Ankou for the next year
M7yKA TIL that lots of famous artists have died in plane crashes, including Glenn Miller when his military plane fell from the sky, Buddy Holly while on an airplane, Patsy Cline who's manager flew in bad weather and John Denver who piloted a home-built aircraft he had recently purchased.
R77Wa TIL Japan has a special group of hobbyists who call themselves “Man-Holers”. They collect manhole cover designs from past decades.
JY05Q TIL Thailand operates the world's smallest aircraft carrier. It has no jets since 2006, only sails for training one day a month and when at port it's open as a tourist attraction.
x6ovD TIL during WW2, because of the lack of oil, gas generators were used to allow cars to use wood as fuel in several places such as France, Britain and Finland