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TIL zebras and donkeys can breed resulting in a zonkey

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WaNX TIL JFK’S main funeral honor Guard were all Irish soldiers flown to the United States at the request of Jacqueline Kennedy who stated that JFK had been enthralled and impressed by how the Irish military honored their dead on his visit to Ireland.
abDZ TIL Giant Rats have been trained to sniff out 14000 landmines and other unexploded arsenal. The rats, which undergo nine months of training, are light enough to not trigger the explosives. They literally work for peanuts!
BajW TIL Elvis Presley on finding out about his wife’s affair, forcefully had sex with her and said “This is how a real man makes love to his woman”
Eko7 TIL-The PowerPuff Girls were originally a short called “ Whoop Ass Stew” and that “Chemical X” was actually a can of Whoop Ass, but eventually it became a cartoon on Cartoon Network with the names changed to be appropriate for children.
jJGj TIL there is a ‘ghost town’ in New York City - “The Hole”, an area of Queens built too close to the water table, is mostly abandoned, usually flooded, and was once a body-dumping ground for the mafia.