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TIL Chimps are given human birth control pills in zoos. Human birth control also works on gorillas.

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OAdX TIL Stephen Hawking provided the voice of his own head in a jar on Futurama.
5YWok TIL: A renewable fuel energy scheme in Northern Ireland allowed businesses to profit from heating empty properties and cost the British Government £500m.
VBBED TIL about "doubling"—a method of multiplication devised by the ancient Egyptians that required only the abilities to multiply and divide by 2 and to add. This method is still in wide use today as implemented by binary multiplier circuits in modern computer processors.
X0D9j TIL Squirrels can survive a fall from any height, at least hypothetically They’re small, they’re fluffy and they’re really good at not getting hurt when falling off of tall objects Squirrels.
69rxX TIL that Theodore Roosevelt was shot during a 1912 presidential campaign speech but still continued to deliver his two hour speech before seeking medical help.