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TIL an orangutan named Fu Manchu figured out how to escape his enclosure at a zoo by picking the lock on a door. He did it repeatedly for weeks as zoo staff was stumped about how and tried every measure to prevent it only to finally catch Fu Manchu in the act using a piece of wire he kept hidden.

oRwkE TIL Rachel Reynolds has been a model on The Price is Right for over 20 years and is the only cast member remaining from the Bob Barker era
vkGx TIL the United States almost adopted the Metric System in 1794. Frenchman Joseph Dombey was en route to America to present the prototypes of a Meter and a Kilogram to the US Congress but his ship got hit by a storm and he got stranded in the Carribean where he died in a British prison.
rROK4 TIL Transparent aluminum, the sci-fi material concocted in Star Trek IV as a lighter material to use for tank glass, is now actually a real thing and lives up to the sci-fi hype.
ZdbD TIL Fiji Water ran ad stating, “The label says Fiji because it’s not bottled in Cleveland”. Cleveland Water Dept responded by running tests comparing a bottle of FIJI Water to Cleveland tap water. FIJI Water contained 6.31 micrograms of arsenic per litre, the tap water of Cleveland contained none
Xdj6 TIL a few weeks before Abraham Lincoln was elected president, 11 year old Grace Bedell sent Lincoln a letter encouraging him to grow a beard, writing, “All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for you…” By the time of his inauguration, Lincoln had a full beard.