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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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XnEE TIL that comedian Retta (Parks and Rec) is the niece of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the President of Liberia
ne96o TIL: Dr. Mary Walker was an American surgeon and feminist. She served as a Union Army nurse in the in the Civil War, before being commissioned as the first woman assistant surgeon. She was awarded the Medal of Honor for her service, and Walker remains the only woman ever to receive this award.
0YrR TIL of Death Bear, a person in a seven-foot-tall bear costume who could be summoned via text message to visit New York homes to collect and remove painful reminders of breakups
GYVJ5 TIL that the game, Borderlands 2 has an NPC character named Michael Mamaril, who offers out loot and weapons to players. This character was created as a tribute to a fan, Michael John Mamarial, who passed away from illness at the young age of 22.
D1A0r TIL that all mammals, from mice to whales, have roughly the same number of heartbeats in a lifetime: 1 billion.