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TIL apes don't ask questions. While apes can learn sign language and communicate using it, they have never attempted to learn new knowledge by asking humans or other apes. They don't seem to realize that other entities can know things they don't. It's a concept that separates mankind from apes.

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woOGM TIL shipwrecks grow "rusticles"
X5XP TIL the Inuit conquered the Arctic from a now-extinct people called the Dorset. The Dorset were allegedly larger and stronger than the Inuit but not warlike and easily scared off.
KOwWR TIL that the scream before the guitar solo in the Kinks' "You Really Got Me" was used to overdub Dave Davies telling his brother Ray to "fuck off."
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