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TIL that wild Chimpanzees and Orangutans have been observed using spears to aid in hunting

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neNNb TIL that two snowflakes CAN be atomically identical, but the number of possible snowflake structures exceeds the number of atoms in the universe, so we say the odds are 0.
GAN15 TIL there are 5 Chili's restaurants in Chile.
6P4w TIL the inventor of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) was arrested in the US for violation of arms-export laws. His crime: he came up with good cryptography for communications and made it available worldwide, which was considered aiding the enemy with munition.
0wYgv TIL in an Aalto University study, participants were shown the movie Memento while making use of fMRI technology to see how the brain remembers and interprets events from clues. Unprecedented in the setup was that the subjects freely viewed the featured film in its entirety in the brain scanner.
GY6yN TIL that about one to two percent of United States Armed Forces members are estimated to belong to criminal gangs in the United States, which is 50 to 100 times the rate or the general population