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TIL of a chimp named Nim Chimpsy that used sign language to express that he wanted to smoke marijuana

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worb8 TIL the political terms "left" and "right" first appeared during the French Revolution of 1789 when members of the National Assembly divided into conservative supporters of the old regime to the assembly president's right and the more liberal supporters of the revolution to his left
xo65 TIL that the world’s longest movie, “The Cure for Insomnia”, is a video of a man reading out a 4000-page poem over the course of 3 days
v1pjK TIL The WWII German submarine U-69's official crest contained the phrase (in German) Tally ho! with signal flags for the letters L M A...which stand for exactly what you think it stands for. Nice.
6EmRm TIL in 1975 Otrag, a West-German company, developed cheap transport rockets. The USSR became nervous, and American corporations concerned about low-cost competitors. American media came to use crude Soviet propaganda to sabotage them, making Otrag evicted from their Congolese base (more in comments)
MeQob TIL The oldest Tree in the world was killed by one man trying to figure out how old it was