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

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Vj5m TIL Abraham Lincoln once gave a speech in Bloomington, Illinois so captivating that it caused every single reporter present to forget to take notes. There is no copy of this speech in existence, and we can only guess at the content. This speech is known as Abraham Lincoln’s ‘Lost Speech’.
8BBV TIL: In 325 AD St. Nicholas lost it and slapped a fellow bishop at the Council of Nicaea.
VBBED TIL about "doubling"—a method of multiplication devised by the ancient Egyptians that required only the abilities to multiply and divide by 2 and to add. This method is still in wide use today as implemented by binary multiplier circuits in modern computer processors.
9wAr6 TIL of Marni Nixon, a singer who dubbed the voices of many actresses in the 1950’s and 1960’s, including Natalie Wood, Audrey Hepburn and Deborah Kerr. She was told that if anyone found out about her work, she would never work in Hollywood again…
J11r1 TIL that Marie Currie kept vials of radium in her pockets and next to her bed because she liked the glow. Now, more than 80 years since her death, the body of Marie Curie is still radioactive.