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Original Title: TIL Louis XIV had an elephant at Versailles, a gift from Portugal’s king in 1668. The animal became part of the Ménagerie, the palace’s zoo, and was fed 80 pounds of bread, 12 pints of wine, and two buckets of soup daily. It is the only African elephant recorded in Europe between 1483 and 1862.