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TIL it is customary for the residents of Churchill, Manitoba to leave their car doors unlocked in case you may need to take shelter from a POLAR BEAR

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mxM7P TIL that in 2014 an orangutan named Sandra was considered "a non-human person" by an Argentinian court, thus resulting in her release from the Buenos Aires Zoo to go to a sanctuary. But in 2016, an appellate court reversed the ruling of Justice Liberatori that Sandra was a non-human person
VMQQ4 TIL that unpaid moderators were able to successfully sue AOL for $15mil, legally they were considered employees
8ryP TIL that a massive gas leak at a chemical plant in Bhopal, India in 1984 killed thousands of people n the surrounding town overnight and is considered the world’s worst industrial disaster
pYNEp TIL the leaf sheep sea slug can perform photosynthesis by eating algae and absorbing the chloroplasts
xVnA7 TIL an ancestor of mine John Balmer was the first man to be killed by a shark in New Zealand.