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TIL in 2009 an orangutan in an Australian zoo aborted an "ingenious" escape plan. She short-circuited the electric fence around her enclosure by jamming a stick into the wires connected to it & then piled up debris to climb a wall. However she sat on the fence for 30 min before voluntarily returning
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TIL the BBB is a a "Pay to Play" scam site that will give any business an "A" rating that pays them $425, and an F rating if they don't pay.
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TIL from 1917 and 1926, 4,000 workers were told that the luminous paint (radium) used for watch dials was harmless, and were encouraged to lick their brushes to form a fine point. These “radium girls" experienced gruesome effects. Radiation could even be detected above their graves.
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TIL Curiosity’s minimum uplink rates to Earth are 160bits/sec and 800bits/sec, depending on the antenna it is targeting on Earth.
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TIL: Singapore used sand from rival Indonesia to grow its land mass. This was banned after Indonesians realized they were literally ceding sovereign land to another nation.