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TIL a Group of Baboons is Called a Congress

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epWpJ TIL ‘Bridge on the River Kwai’ and ‘Planet of the Apes’ were both based on books written by Pierre Boulle
gM5aW TIL Coconuts are not a fruit, nut or seed but a 'fibrous one-seeded drupe'. There are over 80 types of coconut palms, which are not trees since there is no bark, no branches, or secondary growth. A coconut palm is a 'woody perennial monocotyledon'.
XELkQ TIL about Samuel Green, America's first known serial killer. Born in 1796 and executed in Boston in 1822, Green killed people all over New England but his total body count is unknown. Later, he was the first killer whose crimes psychologists attributed in part to horrific abuse during childhood.
p8gB8 TIL of tree man syndrome, a rare gene mutation that makes people highly susceptible to HPV and causes severe deformity.
EgPNW TIL: Nepal's ruling party is a communist party; and they have three different versions of the communist party (including one in opposition); and also the coalition government has only 38 out of 275 seats in the Parliament.