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TIL that if you live long enough, you will eventually develop Cancer

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GYb4 TIL In Project Washoe, there was a chimp called Washoe who learned 350 words of the American Sign Language. She could understand emotions when a worker signaled ‘My baby died’, Washoe signaled 'cry’ and drew her finger down the worker’s cheek even though chimps don’t cry.
R74vj TIL Alice Cooper has said he was inspired to write the song "School's Out" when answering the question, "What's the greatest three minutes of your life?" "If we can catch that three minutes in a song, it's going to be so big."
nebZr TIL that as a percentage of world population, China's population has declined from 37% to 19% since 1750.
ne66b TIL that Hole In My Bucket Day is based on a song from the 1700s, where Henry needs to fix his bucket but he never has the materials to repair it.
pYMmp TIL that there were at least 42 assassination attempts on Hitler uncovered by historians.