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TIL a chimpanzee’s testicles are 1/3 the weight of its brain, compared to 3% for humans

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EA8w TIL: 87 years ago, there was a day that the BBC had no news to report. So they just played piano music.
rjd4 TIL “call of the void” is that feeling when you think for a second about steering into oncoming traffic or jumping off a cliff for no reason although you would never do it.
jNN9j TIL that Marianas Trench is a United States National Monument
9wZ4Q TIL that on May 17, 1947 at Fenway Park a 3lb smelt fell out of the sky and hit Red Sox pitcher Ellis Kinder in the head
D1d8g TIL in The Shining, Stanley Kubrick intentionally isolated Shelley Duvall and argued with her often. Duvall was forced to perform the iconic and exhausting baseball bat scene 127 times. Afterwards, Duvall presented Kubrick with clumps of hair that had fallen out due to the extreme stress of filming.