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TIL that chimpanzees do a little dance when they are near a waterfall, or when there’s heavy rain, as if they’re having a spiritual experience of awe.

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b6Ze7 TIL Tracy Chapman a was relatively unknown performer invited to play for Nelson Mandela’s birthday party until, due to technical difficulties with Stevie Wonder’s equipment, she was brought back upstage to play Fast Car, silencing the crowd of an estimated 80,000.
8ogK TIL Steven Spielberg included a special opening for his movie “Lincoln” for Japanese audiences so those who were unaware of Lincoln’s significance in American history would have a better understanding.
pD58 TIL that up until the 1800’s, it was commonly believed that placing dirty underwear in a bucket with wheat grains would “generate” mice. This was called spontaneous generation, the idea that life could be created from nonliving objects.
R5Md8 TIL the pilots attempts to save Alaska Airlines Flight 261 on 31 January 2000 served as an inspiration for the fictionalized crash landing in the 2012 movie Flight. Flight 261 experienced a catastrophic loss of pitch control and crashed into the Pacific ocean, killing all 88 on board.
NXAL8 TIL in WW2, a German interrogator realised the best way to get information from prisoners was through kindness