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TIL A gorilla carried a 3-year-old boy to safety after he fell into an enclosure at the Brookfield Zoo. The Gorilla, named Binti Jua, gently carried the child to a safe place to protect him from the other gorillas. The boy suffered a broken hand and cuts to his face.

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d8xLr TIL actors Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland got married only 10 days after first meeting. 6 weeks later on location filming ‘Kiss Me, Stupid,’ Sellers inhaled poppers before sex with Ekland in search of “the ultimate orgasm” and suffered 8 heart attacks in 3 hours, forcing withdrawal from the film.
YKYG TIL that is legal to use your feet to hit the ball in volleyball
rRPde TIL that Tay was an artificial intelligence bot that was released by Microsoft via Twitter on March 23, 2016; it caused controversy when the bot began to post inflammatory and offensive tweets through its Twitter account, causing Microsoft to shut down the service only 16 hours after its launch.
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yLKv TIL: A Kansas man replied to a Craigslist ad by a lesbian couple asking for a sperm donor to conceive a child. Five years later, a judge ruled that the sperm donor must pay child support even though he signed documents waiving his parental rights.