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TIL that unlike chimpanzees, bonobo societies are relatively peaceful, with squabbles rarely escalating to serious violence. Female bonobos spend their time together in the center of the group, grooming, eating and socializing. Often, two females will embrace and rub their genitals together

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JVXQ TIL Cristiano Ronaldo funded the education of a 7 y.o. survivor of the horrific 2004 tsunami in Indonesia. The boy was found 21 days after the disaster, alone and wearing a Portuguese national football team jersey. The boy grew up to be a football player and was signed by Sporting Lisbon last year
WkM8A TIL of Randy, the Guinea Pig that broke into the female enclosure at his Zoo, and impregnated around 100 females in 2014. He then became a father of around 400 babies.
wLx5P TIL that in this famous photo of a man being executed in the Vietnam War, both the executioner and the executed have the exact same Family name: Nguyễn. The reason for the brutal summary execution was because he had slit the throats of a military leader and his entire family, all also named Nguyễn.
8er9V TIL of a celebrity librarian who passed as a white woman for 40 years, which opened doors closed to Black women in the early 20th century; she earned $10,000 a year as the librarian for banker JP Morgan when most librarians earned around $400
6BJl TIL Drew Carey was once a spokesperson for A&W Canada, but was dismissed after an episode of The Drew Carey Show featured him eating McDonald’s.