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TIL a Zoo Keeper helped a constipated monkey pass a peanut by licking its ass for an hour.

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K5oG TIL 12 Russian botanists starved to death during the Siege of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in the winter of 1941, rather than consuming the foodstuffs stored at the world’s first seed bank where they worked, Pavlosk Experimental Station.
l7Zor TIL Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt ate 100 McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets every day for 10 days during the 2008 Beijing Olympics
6EJk7 TIL that in 1959 Robert Hunter of The Grateful Dead and Ken Kesey who wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest signed up to be CIA test subjects and we're given LSD. They enjoyed it so much they would take it from the facility and give it to their friends for recreation.
vp1D TIL that, according to a 2007 study by the University of Southern Denmark, the secret to happiness is to have low expectations of life.
pYa4e TIL that Brighton, one of the sunniest places in the UK, still has considerably fewer sunshine hours (~1,840) than 'Rain City' Seattle in the US (~2170)