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TIL Wild Elephants Live Up to an Average of 39 Years Longer Than Their Zoo Counterparts

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xLKb TIL that Isaac Asimov wrote over 500 books, spanning nine out of the ten Dewey Decimal classes
6xEJ TIL the Staten Island Ferry, on a typical workday, makes 118 trips with 5 boats, carrying approximately 70,000 passengers on the 5-mile route between Staten Island and Manhattan, with a 96% on-time performance….for free.
D1Pyp TIL Bayezid II, an Ottoman Sultan that took in displaced Jews from the Spanish Inquisition, reportedly taunted the King of Spain by saying: "You venture to call Ferdinand a wise ruler, he who has impoverished his own country and enriched mine!"
KJEE TIL in WWII the Japanese sent over 9000 “Fire Balloons”, carrying varying payloads of bombs across the pacific to the United States through the use of a jet stream. An estimated 900 of these balloons are believed to have reached North America.
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