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kJj1E TIL in 1990 a truck driver jumped into a moat in an enclosure at the Detroit Zoo to save a chimpanzee from drowning when the chimp inexplicably jumped into the water. He said "Everyone in the whole place was just standing around watching this monkey drown", so he knew he had to do somethng about it.
y1O8 TIL of the Havasupai people, a Native American tribe who have lived in the Grand Canyon for over 800 years.
x614g TIL: For The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., Bruce Campbell auditioned by grabbing himself by the collar, then performing a forward-flip, a trick he and Raimi had taught themselves back in high school.
d8xkZ TIL Leonard Nimoy was an accomplished photographer. His interest in the hobby began in childhood, and for his whole life he owned a camera he’d built at the age of 13. He even seriously considered changing careers after Star Trek, as he studied extensively at UCLA.
WXmY TIL Edgar Allen Poe’s novel “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket” (1838) had an eerily coincidence with an incident 46 years after it was published, a yacht sank in real life and 3 of the 4 survivors also decided to eat the cabin boy…named Richard Parker.