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TIL that gorillas fart almost all the time because their diet consists almost entirely of plant matter which produces large amounts of gas when digested.

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gMae4 TIL in one canton in Switzerland, citizens use their family sword as voter ID and women were only granted the right to vote in 1991.
YYG7 TIL that the Islamic “Assassins” stuck into Saladin’s tent and left a death threat and piece of cake on his chest as he was sleeping. He then made a peace deal.
78aRL TIL that Mary and Rhoda from “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” reunited in a 2000 movie but plans for a new series were abandoned due to bad reviews
J1nVV TIL that the "Freeze", the runner whom fans race against at Atlanta Braves games, is actually a professional track and field runner, not a robot.
gkgy TIL scientists have found the oldest organism known, a 100,000-year-old underwater giant nine miles across and weighing 6600 tons, floating in the Mediterranean Sea. This organism is a large patch of asexually-reproducing seagrass.