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TIL that the use of chimpanzees and other exotic animals in media makes the public think these animals aren't as endangered as they really are.

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7OyM TIL More than 10% of Japan’s GDP comes from its anime industry
9Xb6 TIL that because Japanese sentences end in auxiliary verbs, which are limited compared to English which ends in verbs and nouns, Japanese rappers had to be very creative to make verses rhyme
5Yw6P TIL that after being killed by Partisans, Mussolini was dumped in Piazzale Loreto, where in 1944 he had 15 partisans murdered and publicly displayed. His corpse was kicked, pissed on, and shot at by the Italian crowd, and he was hung upside-down with a meathook along with other Fascists.
e0VAE TIL in the first draft of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Holy Grail was discovered at Harrods department store, at the Holy Grail counter.
p00e TIL that although Jewish people make up only 0.2% of the world’s population, they have won over 1/5 of the Nobel prizes since it first began.