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TIL that UNO was invented by a barber from Ohio to resolve an argument with his son about the rules of Crazy Eights

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GvJJ TIL Koko the gorilla wanted her own pet cat. When she was given a toy cat, she refused to play with it and signed the word “sad” until they finally gave her one.
6RAl TIL that Hitler was not a German Citizen until age 32
bX1E TIL The Ebola virus wiped out 70 to 95% of the 20,000 gorillas in Congo’s d'Odzala national park between 2003 and 2005
kll4 TIL 80% of antibiotics in the U.S. are given to farm animals, and 80% of pig farms, sheep farms, and cattle feedlots use low levels of antibiotics in feed and water. Evidence shows staph bacteria can pass from humans to pigs, evolve resistance to antibiotics, and then pass back into humans.
nWLG7 TIL about Zimmerit. The textured coating that was applied to German tanks in WWII to protect against magnetic mines... despite the fact that the mines were only used widely by German forces.