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TIL The London Zoo would dress chimps in human clothes and provide a table of food and drink for the daily 4pm 'tea party' exhibit.

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gV84 TIL that George Lucas was heavily influenced by Canadian avant-garde filmmakers and borrowed the idea for The Force from the film 21-87 by director Arthur Lipsett (and the # of Leia’s holding cell on the Death Star was…. 2187)
W7oa8 TIL about the Sand Creek Battle that occurred on November 1864 when a 675 man force of the Third Colorado Cavalry attacked and destroyed a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho people in southeastern Colorado Territory killing and mutilating an estimated 69 to over 600 Native American people.
0wNGv TIL that airplane food is heavily seasoned but your sense of taste is dulled when you're on an airplane.
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