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TIL that some monkeys and chimpanzees have officially entered the stone age

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6EAb7 TIL Harriet Tubman had narcolepsy. She developed it after getting hit in the head with a 2lb weight and suffering a TBI. Wanted ads used to describe her as having “a habit of abruptly falling asleep.”
wLLb7 TIL - That the American lullaby "Go to Sleep" was composed by Johannes Brahms.
5KjD TIL of someone who wrote to Monty Python to complain about having a gay group member, adding that the Bible said any man who lies with a man should be taken out and stoned. Eric Idle replied, “We’ve found out who it was and we’ve taken him out and had him killed.”
571p TIL On September 1918, a wounded German soldier limped into Private Tandey’s line of fire. “I took aim but couldn’t shoot a wounded man,” said Tandey, “so I let him go.” Years later he discovered he had spared an Austrian Corporal named Adolf Hitler.
16KPX TIL that Bela Lugosi modeled the Chernabog in the Night on Bald Mountain segment in Disney’s Fantasia