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TIL some people don't have an "inner monologue"

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9YvQQ TIL Chimpanzees in West Africa have entered their own Stone Age: they have been using stone tools for generations.
DQEJY TIL about The International Wizard of Oz Club. A fangroup for the Wizard of Oz books, and L. Frank Buam in general, that was founded in 1957 by Justin Schiller (13 at the time) who is still an active member. They host physical meetups twice a year and publish a physical magazine 3 times a year.
p8peb TIL the Hermit of North Pond- Christopher Knight- lived off of supplies he stole from nearby cabins in a secret campsite where he evaded human contact for almost 30 years. He stole and loved playing Pokemon, Tetris, and Dig-Dug but never stole games he thought were new or would be missed by kids.
dDe9j TIL of the Ghost Dance War, the name given to a violent U.S. Army reprisal to Lakota participation in the pan-native cult of the Ghost Dance. Fearing a renewed Indian War, the Army crackdown led to the murder of Sitting Bull and the massacre at Wounded Knee
bAKa TIL in 1798 when Nepoleon came to Egypt the Sphinx was buried up to its neck. It wasn’t untill between 1925-1936 the french engineer Emil Baraize was successful in clearing the sand to reveal the base of the sphinx.