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TIL there are squirrel monkeys living in the wild in Florida
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TIL From at least the 14th century, belief in a flat Earth among the educated was almost nonexistent.
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TIL that in every U.S. state, whoever presses the button on the slot machine wins the wager, which is why in 2017, a man who had his female friend push the slot machine button for good luck did not win anything but she won $100,000.
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TIL that deaf infants, and those born to deaf parents, “babble” using their hands during the language-acquisition period.
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TIL in 1968 Japan, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car hadbeen riggedwith a bomb. The cop got under the car to defuse the device. Everybody ran when the car started to smoke. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300M Yen robbery remains unsolved
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TIL that the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season has been one of the most hyperactive and damaging in the satellite era.