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TIL that French uses « » as quotation marks instead of " "

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AD7Kd Til - The capacity to lie has also been claimed to be possessed by non-humans in language studies with great apes. In one instance, gorilla Koko, when asked who tore a sink from the wall, pointed to one of her handlers and then laughed.
9wQ0m TIL mindfulness teachers get angry too
rR6Rx TIL that the Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind will be in the Public Domain in 2020.
v1ve4 TIL that in China, companies use stamp chops instead of signatures, and whoever is in physical possession of the stamp can legally sign any document for the company, even rewriting their own employment contract
R5bLQ TIL A bear became the first living being to survive a supersonic ejection