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TIL researchers from Yale introduced the concept of money to Chimpanzees and soon after, they began paying for sex.

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9p8r TIL A man broke into Buckingham Palace spending half hour eating cheddar cheese and wandering around. He tripped several alarms, but they were faulty. He viewed the royal portraits and rested on the throne for a while. He drank half a bottle of wine before becoming tired and leaving.
Vdbk TIL Draco, an Athenian law-maker in 620 BC, was smothered to death by gifts of cloaks and hats showered upon him by appreciative citizens
QNde6 TIL The reason most South and South-East Asian writing symbols are curved and rounded is that they were easier to inscribe into palm-leaves. The oldest surviving documents written in Sanskrit, dated two millennia old, were written on palm leaves.
Wk8PX TIL US diplomat Larry Lawrence fabricated his military records in order to qualify for burial at Arlington Cemetery in 1997. After the deception came to light years later, his body was disinterred in an unprecedented move in the history of the cemetery.
KOAbE TIL Jim Varney the “Ernest P. Worrell” guy was a brilliant Shakespearian actor who played Hamlet.