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TIL In 2002, lecturers and students from the University of Plymouth MediaLab Arts course used a £2,000 grant from the Arts Council to test the Infinate Monkey Theorem by studying the literary output of real monkeys.

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NDmM TIL that mushrooms have 30,000 sexes and can mate with any but their own.
e0D05 TIL Angelina Jolie once hired a hitman to kill her because she felt being murdered would be easier on her family than her suicide. The hitman gave her time to reflect, though, and she changed her mind.
e0m9J TIL Monarch Butterflies generally live for a couple weeks, until the 4th generation that lives for 6 to 8 months to migrate south.
1nvV TIL each pawn in chess used to have its own name, after one of several commoners’ occupations.
NOoE TIL one in three lesbian women report being sexually assaulted by another women, roughly two times higher than the national average for women.