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TIL Gorillas are vegans – the only lapse is the occasional ant – eating leaves, flowers, shoots and stems. A big male needs to consume 75lb of food a day, so they spend much of their time grazing, with the occasional downtime for naps. Their lives are ‘a picnic party with no beginning and no end’

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jNR8X TIL over 90% of the world's natural rubber is grown in Southeast Asia and a fast spreading disease called "Rubber Tree Blight" that once wiped out 90% of the world's supply of rubber in Brazil, could do the same in SEA, collapsing the entire world's economy, backtracking quality of life 130 years.
oADA TIL toddlers in China wear ‘split pants’ or 'crotchless pants’ so they can urinate and defecate in public places with ease.
nX9 TIL Megan Fox is banned from Walmart
EgQaP TIL that originally Aladdin was set in China, as contrary to the popular belief of being set in Middle-East
LkQrZ TIL Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church subscribed to a Calvinist doctrine known as "equal ultimacy," which holds that there is no free will and that God deliberately causes some people to be righteous and others to be wicked.