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TIL in 2009 an orangutan in an Australian zoo aborted an "ingenious" escape plan. She short-circuited the electric fence around her enclosure by jamming a stick into the wires connected to it & then piled up debris to climb a wall. However she sat on the fence for 30 min before voluntarily returning

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D1BYr TIL the Mayans created scenes very similar to today's modern comics, including speech bubbles, stink lines and naughty jokes. In one scene, a cheeky rabbit (dubbed the "Mayan Bugs Bunny") tells an old man to "smell your sweat, wizard penis."
BroDW TIL in 2016 when Kyrgyzstan sought to amend their constitution, they couldn't find their official copy of it
b6kdN TIL that the US government stores 1.4 billion pounds of cheese in underground caves in Missouri
Q4Op TIL that TASER is short for ‘Thomas A Swift’s Electric Rifle’
yQyZv TIL of the loudest plane ever built, the XF-84H Thunderstreak. At idle power, the propeller would create continuous sonic booms that emitted visible shock waves. Anyone nearby, regardless of ear protection, suffered severe nausea, headaches, and it even caused one man to have a seizure.