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TIL the scientific name for the western lowland gorilla is “gorilla gorilla gorilla”

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P10EZ TIL about Victoria Woodhull, the first female presidential candidate in U.S. history, who was a suffragist, women's rights advocate, entrepreneur, and political activist. Her campaign encountered obstacles due to her age and imprisonment on obscenity charges just before the election.
Y7jdP TIL about the Emos vs Punks wars in Mexico and that the Hare Krishnas de-escalated the conflict.
ADJQB TIL that before become a musician, Kanye Omari West was a visual artist whose early work have been valued at $16k-$23k by Antiques Roadshow
VMBgm TIL The Hawkhurst gang were a group of smugglers in England, who by the late 1840s had developed unprecedented power, and were a law unto themselves for over a decade. They boasted they could assemble 500 men in the space of a couple of hours.
e095L TIL there are multiple replicas of the White House, built mostly by private citizens, throughout the United States, and two in Iran and China (the Chinese White House includes a replica of Mount Rushmore as well).