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TIL most coconuts in Thailand are harvested by trained monkeys

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J1MO8 TIL that, in the UK, if you have bought gold jewelry since 1984, it is likely to contain traces of gold stolen in the £26 million Brink's-Mat robbery.
PDLE TIL the Hollywood Walk of Fame star for Muhammad Ali is the only one that’s placed on a wall and not the ground, because Ali “did not want the name of Muhammad to be stepped on”
4kmN6 TIL that while filming the opening scene of 'Scream' where she was being hunted by the killer Ghostface, Drew Barrymore actually called 911 due to an error by the prop master. The police called back in the middle of filming after Barrymore had called them screaming into the phone multiple times.
jNAyp TIL in Fahrenheit 451 the gov't didn't burn books because they were an oppressive dictatorship. The people voted to ban the books because they had short attention spans didn't want to be offended
VMKWQ TIL there was a children’s show, Dr. Wonder’s Workshop, that ran for 7 years, that was done entirely in American Sign Language with English voiceovers.