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TIL of chimp Frodo who beat up Jane Goodall, fathered a baby with his own mother (and also ate a human baby)

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Ye1B TIL the sign language equivalent of a tongue-twister is known as a finger-fumbler.
D1Xdr TIL of the John Frum movement; a cargo cult on the island of Tanna, Vanuatu. Said to have originated in the 1930s following a vision of a Western figure promising prosperity, it gained traction in the early 1940s when 300,000 US troops were stationed in the area. This meant huge amounts of supplies.
woM1M TIL that France did not adopt the Greenwich meridian as the beginning of the universal day until 1911. Even then it still refused to use the name "Greenwich", instead using the term "Paris mean time, retarded by 9 minutes and 21 seconds".
gR5b TIL the Italian words widely used in New Jersey differ greatly from mainstream Italian today not because of bad “copying” but because the words came from people speaking an Italian dialect that subsequently died out in Italy
Nxxb TIL that Scotland once used a currency called ‘The Unicorn’