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TIL An orangutan from a zoo reintroduced to the wild in Borneo began spear fishing after watching local fisherman

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5VlAn TIL the United States has purchased thousands of weapons’ worth of uranium from decommissioned Soviet nuclear weapons. It is estimated that one in ten lightbulbs in the US are powered by nuclear fuel removed from weapons formerly pointed at the US and its allies.
n70P TIL that the U.S. is nearly alone in the world in failing to mandate paid sick time for workers.
a8r09 TIL the painting American Gothic is not a portray of a husband and wife, but a farmer standing beside his unmarried daughter.
NX8lE TIL Saddam Hussein once wrote a medieval romance novel called Zabibah and the King. It was a thinly disguised allegory which represented the events of the first Gulf War in 1991. It was a bestseller in Iraq and is said to have inspired the Sacha Baron Cohen comedy “The Dictator”
kZmW TIL there’s a scene in Game of Thrones where a Meereenese rider is challenging Daenerys’ champion, shouting “Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries” in Low Valyrian.