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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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Kal6 TIL the creator of Beetlejuice was an acclaimed Southern Gothic horror novelist who died of AIDS before he could finish his final novel. Tabitha King (Stephen King’s wife) finished it for him.
DQORp TIL: That the chorus of David Bowie's Starman is loosely based on Over The Rainbow from the film The Wizard Of Oz. Alluding to the Starman's extraterrestrial origins (over the rainbow), the octave leap on "Star-man" is identical to that of Judy Garland's "some-where" in Over The Rainbow.
R7rNa TIL: Japan had issues with crow nests on electric infrastructure, so they went and destroyed all of the nests....which prompted the local crow population to just build MORE nests, far in excess to what they actually needed
kOVxg TIL: The flap on a toilet seat cover should be facing the front!
Z8KJQ TIL that in 1944, Lucien Carr, a member of the group that would become known as the Beat Poets, stabbed his former Boy Scout leader to death after being stalked by him for years. Several soon-to-be well-known writers helped Carr cover up the crime, including William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac.