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TIL bonobos try to lie to gain sympathy and will rat each other out with sign language and lexigrams

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4lk6 TIL Illegal coal mining activities in Mongolia, and the intense use of coal burned on simple stoves has turned a region of Mongolia once famed for its blue skies into one of the world’s most polluted
R7yW9 TIL that one of Lucille Ball's first credited roles was with the Three Stooges.
69ewm TIL what the chemical propellant that inflates airbags looks like through CT scans.
VMBEm TIL by reading Bartleby, of the Dead Letter Office, where undeliverable letters are opened yo find out where to send them.
m6Ly TIL California’s largest body of water, the Salton Sea, was created by an engineering mistake. Irrigation canals were dug from the Colorado river to the Salton sink. When the river flooded a dyke was breached and the entire Colorado river poured into the sink making the sea.