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TIL that there have been at least six instances of chimpanzees stealing and eating human babies.

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yEyV TIL A production engineer deleted the original recording of the third verse of “Stan” by Eminem. Eminem messed up on the last three lines, and the engineer accidentally re-recorded over the whole thing because he was high. When confronted by Eminem, his response was “My bad man…you wanna hit this?”
VQ7Q TIL the game “Assassin’s Creed” was purposely created to teach kids history under the guise of a bloody assassin video game.
Z8DOR TIL in 1995, NASA astronomer Bob Williams wanted to point the Hubble telescope at the darkest part of the sky for 100 hours. Critics said it was a waste of valuable time, and he'd have to resign if it came up blank. Instead it revealed over 3,000 galaxies, in an area 1/30th as wide as a full moon
XbY8 TIL giraffes only need 5 to 30 minutes of sleep in a 24-hour period.
RR67 TIL there are moths that feed on the tears of sleeping birds.