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TIL chimpanzees are about four times as strong as humans.

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yWXe TIL at the age of 14, Helen Mar Kimball was told by Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, that in order to ensure eternal salvation for herself and her family, she had to enter into a polygamous marriage with him. She consented 24 hours later.
x6ew1 TIL about the ‘My Way Killings’, in which 12 people in the Philippines were killed due arguments around karaoke performances of the Frank Sinatra song. People in the Philippines now avoid the song in karaoke bars.
VM9RZ TIL the inventor of the bikini had to hire strippers to model it on the fashion runway because women used to recognize bikinis as underwear
WvVN TIL there’s a 3D printer on the ISS and they’ve used it to ‘email’ tools into space (e.g. a socket wrench)
Egnbw TIL about the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a secure backup facility that protects duplicates of seeds that are conserved in genebanks around the world. The purpose is to protect the world's food supply in case of disaster.