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TIL that Michael Jackson's chimpanzee 'Bubbles' is still alive at 40 years old and living in Florida

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8e1EL TIL that Chicago is home to a significant Appalachian population. Between 1940 and 1970, approximately 3.2 million Appalachian and Southern migrants, both black and white, settled in Chicago and elsewhere in the Midwest. Uptown gained a reputation for being a “Hillbilly Heaven”.
YR7r TIL that the reason you can usually only breathe through one nostril is because of blood vessel dilation called Ultradian Rhythyms and is a method of keeping the nostrils from becoming dehydrated.
LD4Z TIL In 2009, The Sun attacked Gordon Brown for misspelling the name of a soldier killed in Afghanistan, but in doing so misspelled the name themselves
6el7 TIL Over 5,000 PhD’s work as janitors in U.S.
17wO TIL on the day before Super Bowl XXII, [Redskins QB Doug] Williams had a six-hour root canal surgery performed (under full anaesthetic) to repair an abscess under a dental bridge; he played the Super Bowl with his jaw wired shut.