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

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Lk4o9 TIL The oboe is frequently described as a very difficult instrument to play. Because air is forced at high pressure into the tiny reed, stale air can gather in the lungs, making you feel faint if the air is not expelled quickly
5Ydyn TIL of the Hutterites; a religious group similar to the Amish, with the exception that they utilize modern equipment and technology to run complex farming and manufacturing operations on hundreds of colonies across the Western US and Canada.
jNlpQ TIL that Emmy Noether, one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, described her doctoral thesis as "crap", despite it being well received
e0nJg TIL dying stars cause space to smell like "hot metal, diesel fumes and barbecue." Astronauts have also compared the smell of the moon to "spent gunpowder."
woZGW TIL that Dave Scott who commanded Apollo 15, orchestrated a prank to replace photos inside the instruction booklets which contained tasks which had to be followed with pictures of topless playboy models that Astronauts Alan Bean and Pete Conrad were to use.