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TIL the Easter Island heads also have bodies.

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xV9B7 TIL of Loulis, a chimp who learned to communicate trought sign languange, but he wasn't taught by humans: he learned the signs from his adoptive mother, Washoe, the first chimp to ever learn sign languange
jNnGR TIL about the moon landing’s ‘Human Computers’. Who were a group of women, who held math and science degrees, and were responsible for managing the moon landing’s incredibly complex calculations. They also did it real-time, by written hand, and were faster than any technology available before 1970.
W74j8 TIL that out of the 13 official Disney Princesses, only Tiana from The Princess and the Frog was born in the United States. She was born around 1910 in New Orleans. While Pocahontas was born around 1596 in what is now Virginia, the United States didn’t exist at the time.
oMjR TIL we often suffer from the illusion of transparency; we assume our emotions are more apparent to others than they really are. In experiments participants generally think others can tell they are nervous when giving a speech, but usually the observers are less aware of their anxiety than expected.
PYrJ TIL That in 1986, a beer drinking goat was elected mayor of a small town in Texas, USA.