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TIL a species of monkey known as the Lesula was discovered in 2007 (though already known by locals). It has a brilliantly blue bottom.

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6NyJ TIL Freddie Mercury had a girlfriend, Mary Austin, for six years before he decided he preferred male partners. In his will he left her his mansion and the bulk of his multi-million pound fortune.
691gl TIL the neo-babylonian emperor Nebuchadnezzar II is described in the bible as displaying symptons consistent with boanthropy, a disorder in which a human believes themselves to be a bovine.
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