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TIL that chimpanzees also wage wars. The Gombe Chimpanzee War pitted two groups against each other for four years.

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gZk7 TIL that former NSA Intelligence Official William Binney blew the whistle on the NSA’s surveillance activities as early as 2002, and was raided by the FBI in July 2007 in suspicion of his role in a New York Times Expose on warrant-less wiretapping.
9YVX6 TIL Octopuses live only 3-5 years, so they have limited time for accumulating information. Some researchers say that if octopuses had lived more, they, and not humans, would have been the dominant intelligence on Earth.
R7Ak8 TIL There is a place called the Three Emperors' Corner, which for more than 40 years marked the place at which the borders of three of Europe's most powerful empires – the Russian Empire, Austria-Hungary and the German Empire – met.
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