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TIL during the 2010 Commonwealth Games small monkeys roamed the Delhi streets and couldn't be removed because of religious reasons. So instead a larger species of monkey (The Colobinae) was brought in to scare away the smaller monkeys.

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xVN61 TIL due to an oversight, Ohio wasn't officially admitted into the union as a state until 1953. As Congress never took a formal vote in 1803.
kJW4e TIL of Australian Senator Bill Heffernan, who in 2014 felt that the new security arrangements at Parliament House were inadequate. To protest this, he smuggled in a fake pipe bomb and presented it at a Senate hearing as proof that the building was "no longer secure".
69Epm TIL More gold exists on paper than physically. Instead of real gold, paper substitutes for gold are sold through derivatives, futures, pooled accounts, exchange-traded funds, gold certificates, etc.
awpON TIL the Netherlands leads the world in daily coffee consumption, with the population averaging 2.4 cups per day
MeJ10 TIL that 6 days after assuming the presidency, Saddam Hussein executed all of his opposition in one fell swoop while delivering one of the most chilling public speeches ever delivered.