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TIL Baby gorillas are curious and will pull colourful items such as shoes, clothing, or dyed hair that they see on tourists. A baby in Rwanda once picked up a glove that tourist dropped, and the angry silverback confiscated it and threw it back at the tourist

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JYDkV TIL the top of the giant redwood forest were thought to be a lifeless wasteland. But explorers recently discover their canopy contains an entire ecosystem. A lake of fern, top soil a meter deep in its branches, trees and other plants, and crustaceans that only live in water all live up there.
b6JN9 TIL Lyndon Baines Johnson was the last US President (as of 18/11/23) to die who was from the Democratic Party, January 22, 1973, 50 years ago.
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