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TIL Toronto Zoo asked visitors to stop showing cellphone videos to the animals

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WgV9 TIL there is a snake in Africa whose venom causes your blood to not only stop clotting but to come running out of every hole on your body. Its called the boomslang snake.
4kEb5 TIL it was the 70-year-old financer and the Richest Banker in the country J.P. Morgan who pledged massive amount of personal funds to provide liquidity and stabilize the situation during the Bank Panic of 1907
VMakB TIL that a 2019 poll found that only around three in ten Americans enjoy changing the clocks for daylight savings time, while seven in ten would prefer to stick to a standardized time all year.
X0Bx8 TiL that the backing vocals on Paul Simon's song "Graceland" are performed by The Everly Brothers.
oB7RE TIL that it's been more than 45 years since any human being has traveled far enough from our planet to capture a whole-Earth portrait like the famous "Blue Marble" photograph. 45 years!