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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/mueckenmoerder on 2023-08-11 22:02:24.

Original Title: TIL that in Wuppertal, Germany in 1950, the circus elephant Tuffi broke through a window of a moving overhead railway and fell 12 metres down in a river, while on promotion tour for a circus. Luckily she survived with minor injuries.