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TIL following a public petition to release him, at the age of 100 Bill Wallace, an Australian man who had spent several decades in an institution for the criminally insane, was allowed to leave. He refused, reportedly saying "“Don’t be f***ing silly, I live here.”.

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yQXKp TIL of the kidnapping of journalist David Rohde, who escaped with another captive after eight months by tiring out their captors with repeated games of checkers.
OPY1 TIL when Washoe, first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker’s baby had died, she signed “CRY”, touching her cheek and drawing her finger down the path a tear would make on a human (Chimpanzees don’t shed tears)
8a5oG TIL there are some 5,000 words, mostly nouns, that the Turkish borrowed from the French language (and quite a few English ones too). If you speak French to a conversational level and you'r a native English speaker, you could learn Turkish in a few weeks.
wL6n1 TIL that Kiefer Sutherland (TV series "24") provided the facial motion capture and English voices for Big Boss and Venom Snake in the video games "Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes" and "Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain".
oBZ6K TIL the DMZ between North and South Korea has created an ecological oasis where otherwise rare or extinct species are thriving.