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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

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loMo1 TIL in 1922, the Cardinals and Cubs traded two players in the middle of a double header. The players just switched uniforms, as names didn’t become standard on uniforms until the 1960s.
Y7JGP TIL Samoa skipped December 31, 2011
wXrY TIL that a scientist breached security at Los Alamos by leaving an orange on his desk, and that any spherical object became a “nuclear secret” once it passed into a secure area of the laboratory, as it could be taken as a model for the plutonium pit that drives a nuclear weapon.
kOLyd TIL Edward Youde was the only Governor of Hong Kong to die in office. He helped negotiate the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which made it clear that the British would leave Hong Kong in 1997 after 156 years of colonial rule
mxnyy TIL after three failed marriages, Whoopi Goldberg came to the conclusion that she's much happier living by herself, explaining: “I don’t want somebody in my house.”