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TIL Dr. Seuss' Lorax character was likely inspired by the patas monkeys he encountered while in Kenya

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W809 TIL an Italian schoolboy who was selling snacks on campus at a lower price than the cafeteria was suspended for 10 days. He also received a prestigious scholarship from an institute that said the boy’s initiative should be “encouraged, not persecuted”.
VM1BB TIL the USSR had a televised song contest. Since few people had phones, viewers would turn their house lights on if they liked a certain song, off if they didn’t. The state energy company recorded the size of each power spike & reported results to the station to determine votes for each contestant.
EgEwx TIL That English band Black lace missed out on two worldwide hits after their versions were beaten to release by other bands. The Birdie song and Cotton eye Joe respectively.
Me0OW TIL that in 1657 Otto von Guericke, having pumped the air from two copper hemispheres, creating a vacuum, showed that two teams of horses could not pull apart "nothing at all."
XEnWr TIL that around 7 billion chicks are culled per year in the egg industry. Chick culling is the process of separating and disposing of unwanted chicks because they're of no use. It occurs in all industrialised egg production whether free range, organic, or battery cage.