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TIL chimpanzees actually do understand rhythm and have been seen clapping and stomping specifically to the beat of a song

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6lEw TIL Brain scans show compulsive gamers have hyperconnected neural networks. One researcher said: “Hyperconnectivity between these brain networks could lead to a more robust ability to direct attention toward targets, and to recognize novel information in the environment.”
xVD7w TIL The nile crocodile and similar species, unlike other animals known to be "man-eaters", are one of the few predators that see humans as actual reliable food and it will attack to predate unprovoked or when they see the opportunity.
78kQ7 TIL that the word "leopard" originally referred not to the leopard but to the cheetah, which at the time was incorrectly believed to be the hybrid offspring of a lion and a "pard" (i.e. a lion and what we now call a leopard)
8rBL TIL The point of giving back to back life sentences is so that if evidence is overturned in a murder for one sentence; the convicted must still serve for the other(s)
p8kxQ TIL of Gan Ying, a Chinese envoy who in 97 AD was sent on a diplomatic mission to Rome. He would turn around in Mesopotamia, discouraged by sailors who gave him a lengthy estimate on a sea voyage. Unknown to him Parthia shared a land border with Rome, which was only a months travel away from him.