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TIL Monkeys will pay to watch monkey porn.
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TIL that the first use of an external defibrillator was on a 14-year-old boy in 1947. These early defibrillators used alternating current that was transformed from 110–240 volts available in the line, up to between 300 and 1000 volts, to the exposed heart by way of "paddle" type electrodes.
VMkO4
TIL The canaries sent down into mines to detect gas weren't sacrificed but placed in a device to revive them when they succumbed to the dangerous gases.
GARb4
TIL On the morning of 27 August 1883, on the Indonesian island of Krakatoa, a volcanic eruption produced pressure waves that went around the Earth three and a half times, being heard as far away as Australia and Mauritius.
168W8
TIL that when a painting of the mugshot of killer Myra Hindley was displayed at the Royal Academy of Art in London in 1997, Hindley herself wrote from prison to ask for her portrait to be removed, describing it as a sole disregard for the emotional pain experienced by the families of the victims
WkGld
TIL about the Corps of Colonial Marines, a group of freed black American slaves, who participated for the United Kingdom in the War of 1812, including the Burning of Washington