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TIL in the 1920’s, Joseph Stalin sent a breeding expert to Africa to mate humans and chimpanzees in an attempt to create a monkey-man army.

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GA7LN TIL that barnacles were a major problem to old ships and that the 18th-century British Navy gained a great advantage by covering their ships' hulls with copper to stop the barnacles from growing.
j6Vwp TIL about Tirthankara who, according to Jainist tradition. conquered the saṃsāra, the cycle of death and rebirth, whose teachings form the basis for the Jain canons. In Jain tradition, tirthankara pave the way for others: their grace is available to all living beings, regardless of religion.
yp6e TIL in 2003, Metallica music and popular American children’s songs (e.g., the theme songs to Sesame Street and Barney) were used by U.S. interrogators to break the will of their captives in Iraq. Amnesty International claimed this may constitute torture and be in violation of the Geneva Convention.
GjN5 TIL that US research shows that young adults aged between 20 and 24 and born in the 1990s were more than twice as likely to report that they had had no sexual partners since the age of 18 than young adults of the same age born in the 1960s
oB6OE TIL: The Salish Wool Dog is an extinct breed of dog that was bred to produce wool that was prized among the Northwestern Salish Tribe.