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TIL about Ivan; a silverback gorilla who was kept for over 27 yrs in a small, cement cage for public display in a mall in Tacoma, Wa.

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NXPbJ TIL In order to prepare for his work "The Raft of the Medusa" T.Géricault obsessively studied dead bodies in order to depict them accurately. He observed dying patients at a hospital and brought severed limbs into his art studio, including a severed head he spend two weeks observing
a8vX9 TIL that the anthem of the French football club Le Havre AC is sung to the tune of God Save the King to honour its English founders
0wnON TIL about Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the first person to introduce inoculation to Britain (70 years before Jenner) based on a practice she observed whilst travelling around the ottoman empire
6XKX TIL Martin Van Buren left the Democratic party and ran for president in 1848 for the Free Soil party, an anti-slavery and “true democratic” party
oBovo TIL a 12-yr-old Canadian boy was caught after hacking multiple sites in order to trade pirated information to the hacktivist group Anonymous for video games. His lawyer said the boy who had been hacking since age 9 was not politically motivated; he merely saw it as a challenge.