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TIL that Aaliyah released her first LP at 15, titled "Age Ain't Nothing but a Number" ...written and produced by R. Kelly

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xwBo TIL In 2011, a crested black macaque pressed a trigger on a wildlife photographer’s camera, set up in a jungle for that specific purpose. This incident set off an unusual debate about copyright. In 2016, a federal judge ruled that a monkey cannot own the copyright to the images.
YXad TIL post office workers once sent a live cat through the pneumatic mail tube system in New York.
yQ44a TIL there was a man eating Leopard who killed over 150 people in British India in the early 20th century. The leopard reportedly killed a victim once every 2–3 days, each time in a different area to the last, with the killings sometimes taking place 20–30 miles apart.
m1Nv TIL Futurama’s writers added nibbler’s shadow into the very first episode of Futurama that they could discuss later on
P1Oxe TIL the longest fall ever survived without a parachute was a flight attended in 1972 who dropped over 30k feet and survived.