› added 4 years ago

822

TIL chimpanzees are about four times as strong as humans.

Read more abcnews.go.com

via reddit.com

4vA5 TIL there is a charity organization that makes porn to protest against tropical deforestation. Their name: Fuck For Forest
Pk9E TIL there is an AI called Melomics which has written over 1,000,000,000 songs since July 2012 without human intervention
rRBZ1 TIL that John Cougar (before he reclaimed his real name) and his band were not allowed to play live on American Bandstand, lip-synch only. So Cougar and band showed up and "played" with instruments that obviously aren't anywhere on the record.
bA7p TIL in 1963, San Francisco Giants Manager Alvin Dark joked, “they’ll put a man on the moon before [Giants pitcher] Gaylord Perry hits a home run.” On July 20, 1969, less than an hour after Neil Armstrong’s historic moon walk, Perry smacked his first career homer.
m1LyM TIL Iggy Pop and David Bowie went to West Berlin to get clean