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TIL chimpanzees and monkeys have been in the Stone Age for at least 4300 years

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mxDQR TIL About The Real Captain America - Master Sgt. Andrew 'Andy' Christian Marckesano - He served 6 full tours in Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne and the Ranger regiment - Turned Away from the VA Hospital due to full capacity - A few days later he killed two civilians and took his own life.
P1xeO TIL about the Illusory truth effect, also known as the illusion of truth effect, validity effect, truth effect, or the reiteration effect) is the tendency to believe false information to be correct after repeated exposure
8eBwa TIL Warren Beatty and Shirley MaClain are brother-sister
BRny TIL That in 1980 Saddam Hussein received the key to Detroit.
R7gLj TIL There are classes in Japan that teach kids how to use the Soroban abacus to develop faster skills in arithmetic. After a few years they no longer even need to use a real abacus to perform fast mental calculations since they can already visualize an image of it..