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TIL in 1931, an experiment was conducted in which a human baby and baby chimpanzee were paired to see if the chimp would conform and grow like a human. The experiment was stopped when it was discovered that the baby was instead learning from the chimpanzee.

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ne6rW TIL that 2,400-year old ruins where found on the northern coast of Greenland, more than 300 miles north of the current northernmost town in the world.
JY7XB TIL In 1386 a pig was accused of eating a child, a trial was held and the pig was given human clothes, the pig was determined guilty and sentenced to death by public hanging
N7Wmb TIL divorce rates and age are strongly correlated. Someone who marries at 25 is over 50 percent less likely to get divorced than is someone who weds at age 20, but past the age of 32, the odds of divorce increase by 5 percent per year for those who get married.
69EmX TIL of SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin. A German football club who, after the only other team in Berlin were kicked out the league got an unexpected promotion to the top league. The German FA wanted to keep a club in the city of Berlin for political reasons. They remain the worst team in Bundesliga history.
d8Vr7 TIL a French woman, Marie Belmont-Gobert, hid a British soldier in a cramped cupboard in her house from Jan 1915 to the end of WWI in 1918, despite German officers living in her home and socialising in the room the cupboard was in. She received an OBE post-war. Cupboard is in museum in U.K.