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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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XEpKX TIL actor Joaquin Phoenix got into a traffic accident which flipped over his car, but was rescued by a random passerby who first calmly snatched away Phoenix's cigarette lighter right before it lit up the leaking gas tank. The passerby was Werner Herzog.
1a7Xr TIL that one time on The Price Is Right the sound effects for the big wheel were not working so the audience provided them.
XEl7Q TIL: 364 Idaho inmates hacked hand-held prison tablets and collectively transferred $225,000 worth of credits to themselves
p8v0b TIL that in 2007 Russia planted their national flag underwater in hopes of securing the arctic's potential natural resources. “This isn’t the 15th century,” one foreign minister said. “You can’t go around the world and just plant flags and say, ‘We’re claiming this territory.’
M7O60 TIL that austrian poet Georg Trakl (1887-1914) was a pharmacist and served as a medical officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army. In the battle of Gródek (September 1914), he had to take care of 90 severely wounded soldiers all by himself for two days. Trakl overdosed on cocaine in November 1914.