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TIL: The German word for “selfie stick” is deppenzepter, which roughly translates to “idiot staff”

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VMWNZ TIL A Soviet scientist, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov has attempted inseminate three female chimpanzees with human sperm as a part of his controversial attempts to create a human-ape hybrid. The purpose of the project was to "prove" evolution and use it as propaganda against the Russian Orthodox Church.
yQk1v TIL students at Oberlin College can rent original paintings by Picasso, Monet, and Dalí (among others) to hang in their dorm rooms for $5 per semester
MYXB TIL that long-term couples develop interconnected memory systems.
7PjX TIL That George R.R Martin still writes using a DOS-based word processing application released in 1978. (WordStar 4.0)
dDllE TIL that the first country to recognize U.S. independence from Great Britain, in 1777, was Morocco.