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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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8aJML TIL That The Field of Dreams still exists in Iowa. You can take a tour of the house, the field and they have games where the players dress up like the old teams and come out to the baseball field through the corn field.
Y77BZ TIL that some spiders can survive drowning by going into a coma.
b9AK9 TIL in 1851 because it was too expensive to import ice from the United States and Norway, an Australian man invented an ice-making machine and its first application, aside from making ice, was to cool beer. He was James Harrison, "the father of refrigeration"
D1x0V TIL during the Tehran Conference, Stalin proposed over a dinner the execution of 50,000 to 100,000 German officers to prevent Germany from starting another war. Roosevelt, thinking Stalin was joking, said "49,000 would be enough." Churchill however was so enraged he stormed out of the room.
GALN1 TIL that during the falklands war in 1982 the british mistakenly killed three whales believing them to be enemy submarines.