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TIL that Koko the gorilla, who uses ASL to communicate, met and developed a liking to Robin Williams in 2001; in 2014 Koko learned of his death and apparently mourned for him with shows of sadness and melancholy.

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d8y1E TIL a study led by John Pachankis has found gay and bisexual men experience more stress from dating than their straight counterparts.
loBar TIL that there was a second Titanic. The Titanic was one of 3 ships called the Olympic Cruisers. The reason why the actual Titanic was called 'unsinkable' was because its sister ship, the Olympic, had a years history of crashing into stuff and refusing to go down.
OG0l1 TIL about the bonnacon, a mythical medieval beast said to defend itself with explosive bowel movements.
gM5R4 TIL in 2018 “One of the four greatest wing chun masters” challenged an MMA fighter during live broadcast television in China. However, despite being knocked down 6 times in a row by the MMA fighter the fight was considered a draw by the referee
e0VrD TIL British people tend to be “bi-measurement” the same way some people are bilingual. Both imperial and metric units factor into their lives.