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TIL Chimpanzees routinely outperform humans in memory contests and simple strategy games.

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PYekw TIL "a low sense of control is highly associated with anxiety, depression, and virtually all mental health problems. Researchers have found that a low sense of control is one of the most stressful things that people can experience."
8eBKX TIL: A political decoy is a person employed to draw attention away from a politician and to take risks on that their behalf.
8ajjb TIL in 2008 nearly half of Liechtenstein's labor force were daily commuters from nearby countries - Austria, Switzerland and Germany.
xVdd7 TIL: Tropical Islands Resort is a tropical water park located 50 kilometers south of Berlin. It is housed in a former airship hangar (the Aerium), the biggest free-standing hall in the world.
oR90o TIL A sturgeon's sex can't be reliably determined until 5 years of age, which leaves caviar farms with the significant expense of inadvertently raising males.