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TIL Fedex nearly went bankrupt in its early days - its founder took the company's last $5000 to Las Vegas and won enough money through blackjack to cover their $24000 fuel bill.

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mxM7P TIL that in 2014 an orangutan named Sandra was considered "a non-human person" by an Argentinian court, thus resulting in her release from the Buenos Aires Zoo to go to a sanctuary. But in 2016, an appellate court reversed the ruling of Justice Liberatori that Sandra was a non-human person
6ENlY TIL there's a sequel to "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" with Johnny Cash as the narrator. In it, the Devil returns to Georgia to challenge Johnny to a rematch. The Devil loses.
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