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TIL the United States once voted on a treaty that would have annexed the Dominican Republic, with the eventual goal of making it a state

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GYb4 TIL In Project Washoe, there was a chimp called Washoe who learned 350 words of the American Sign Language. She could understand emotions when a worker signaled ‘My baby died’, Washoe signaled 'cry’ and drew her finger down the worker’s cheek even though chimps don’t cry.
Qn56 TIL that if you watched an object slip into a black hole, no matter how long you watched, you would never actually see the object enter it due to time dilation.
gMoby TIL In Japan you can hire actors to pose as short/longterm spouses,children,friends,etc. Ishii Yuichi was hired to pose as a girl's missing father by her mother for over 8 years without his "daughter" knowing.
Y7J7v TIL: The sentinelese, an uncontacted hunter gatherer tribe living in a remote Indian island in the Bay of Bengal
awwG0 TIL Singapore is the largest importer of sand world-wide and the world’s highest per capita consumer of sand at 5.4 tonnes per inhabitant