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TIL In 1990 a man jumped into a Detroit Zoo Chimpanzee enclosure to rescue a drowning chimp

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Lkm8Q TIL according to a 2001 study, sponsored by the BBC, France 3 and Discovery Channel, Jesus's skin would have been more olive-colored than white or black, and that he would have most likely looked like a typical Galilean Semite of his day.
k7Xd TIL that Benjamin Franklin tried to convince the Royal Academy of Brussels “To discover some Drug…that shall render the natural Discharges of Wind from our Bodies, not only inoffensive, but as agreeable as Perfumes.”
9kOQ TIL that two thirds of Denmark’s income used to come from charging people to enter or leave the Baltic sea, those that refused to pay were sunk
yVewV TIL Composer Richard Wagner lived in Villa Wesendonck, an elegant neoclassical mansion in Zurich. Wagner's house later became the Rietberg Museum, the only gallery in Switzerland to concentrate on non-European cultures
Yv9A TIL Sir Ian McKellen was born at the start of WWII with the war having a lasting impact on him in his young age - “only after peace resumed … did I realise that war wasn’t normal”