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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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lorna TIL Seneca once sat through the half time at a gladiatorial fight, the time when the bloodiest spectacles usually took place. He expected staged fights with blunt swords but instead described the specacle as "plain butchery", and adviced his friend never to attend the games
ZyY4 TIL that Tsunamis in non seabound lakes exist
kO4EB TIL that 2-dollar bills are actually still being made. The main reason they're so rare is not because they were discontinued, but because people think they're valuable and hoard them.
164b8 TIL that Harry Connick Jr.'s father, a New Orleans DA, suppressed evidence to wrongfully put a man on death row for nearly two decades
9Zyp TIL A small jumping spider named Euophrys omnisuperstes (which means ‘standing above everything else’) lives at elevations of up to 6,700 metres on Mount Everest, making it the highest known permanent resident on earth.