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TIL Chimpanzees and some monkeys have entered the stone age.

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awajN TIL a man went to prison for killing hundreds of thousands of fish, blaming them for the death of his father. First I started picking them off with my 30.06, when I ran out of shells I went after ‘em with my knife. when I dropped it into the river, I went to work with my bare hands.”
NXQlP TIL Fred Gwynne [a.k.a. Herman Munster] wrote and illustrated children’s books. He once said the only thing he ever dreamed of being was a portrait artist.
Ox97 TIL In 2014, a rural Iraqi clock maker went to sleep, woke up, and watched a “nice Egyptian film” before realizing he was the last resident remaining after his town had been seized by ISIS. He convinced them he was not a soldier, showed them the Mosque’s light switch, and went back to his house.
pYB04 TIL: in 2013, 64-year-old Diana Nyad swam from Cuba to Florida. A distance of 110 miles. It took 53 hours.
J0bv TIL astronomer Johannes Kepler abandoned everything to defend his mother against claims of witchcraft–over a period of six years–saving her from sure execution at the stake.