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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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yQ7Wp TiL That Prince asked Journey's Jonathan Cain for his blessing when he had recorded "Purple Rain" because he was worried it sounded too much like Journey's "Faithfully"
9jLQ TIL Julia “Butterfly” Hill, on December 10, 1997, ascended 180 feet (55 m) up the redwood tree Luna to stave off Pacific Lumber Co. loggers who were clear-cutting. Hill lived on two 6-by-6-foot (1.8 by 1.8 m) platforms for 738 days until a resolution was reached with the logging company.
rNyG4 TIL Vince Gilligan did not know about the show Weeds when he created Breaking Bad, both about suburban people dealing drugs.
x6e60 TIL the estimated odds of a structure in Tornado Alley taking a direct hit from a tornado is 5,000 to 1
nW7QW TIL: Karoly Takacs, a Hungarian Army shooter, lost his winning "right" hand due to a grenade explosion months before the olympic games. He decided to practice shooting with his left hand and won the Hungarian National Pistol Shooting Championship in 1939 & won Gold in 1948 and 1952 olympics.