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TIL that a 2-Ton Elephant escaped from a farm in New York's Catskills mountains and roamed its forests for 2 weeks in November 1957 before it was peacefully recaptured 7 miles away.

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7BdO TIL that octopuses are very intelligent, and that in 1875 an octopus at the Brighton Aquarium would escape its tank when the guards weren’t around, eat the lump fish in another tank, then go back to its own tank before the aquarium opened
Yp6WW TIL that Frankenstein was the name of the scientist: the creature had no name, and was called as 'thing', 'fiend', 'spectre', 'demon' or 'ogre'
E7Mx TIL that when the Duke of Wellington attended a party in Vienna, some French officers turned away from the conqueror of Napoleon. When a woman apologized for their rudeness, Wellington replied “I have seen their backs before, madam.”
m1Lrp TIL that Lanai - the sixth largest Hawaiian Island - is 98% owned by a single individual, billionaire Oracle founder Larry Ellison.
8arGZ TIL of Craig Williamson, a Florida man who was watching "Unsolved Mysteries" and recognized himself as the missing person in Colorado. He claimed he was beaten in a robbery and developed amnesia. He was later reunited with his wife whom he had no memory of. Police are skeptical of the story.