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TIL about the last place on earth where orangutans, rhinos, elephants and tigers still live together in the wild - the Leuser ecosystem in Indonesia. It spans 6 million acres (about 3 times the size of Yellowstone). And it’s heavily endangered from deforestation & human activities/encroachment

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REO6 TIL the US allows meat packaging to contain carbon monoxide, used to keep the meat looking fresh. It does not aid in actual preservation of meat. It works so well, though, Congress was shown fresh beef and beef that was 2 years old (preserved with CO). They were indistinguishable.
P1Zpn TIL when Anthony Quinn was filming The Guns of Navarone he was so taken by the location shooting of Rhodes, an island in Greece, that he bought property there and there is an area still called Anthony Quinn Bay.
p8mZp TIL that Stanley Kubrick recorded a typist hammering out “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,” because he believed each typewriter key made a slightly different sound and he wanted the audio track of “The Shining” to be perfectly accurate.
yQ4PJ TIL that fearing job losses caused by mechanization, Queen Elizabeth I denied William Lee a patent for his knitting machine in the late 1500s. He had to move to France, where he was granted a patent by Henry IV, the King of France
E1r5X TIL that General Eisenhower, horrified by the concentration camps discovered as allied troops rolled into Nazi territory, ordered camera crews to document the grisly scenes. He also forced local government officials to tour the camps. Warning: This video is extremely graphic!