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TIL there are documented chimpanzee wars

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4XRrw TIL Sour Patch Kids were originally called Mars Men, but the name changed in 1985 to capitalize on the popularity of Cabbage Patch Kids.
wjZY TIL Lurch from a The Addams Family was originally supposed to be mute, but “You rang?” was ad-libbed and the producers thought it was so funny that they wrote more lines for the character.
D16jj TIL in 1490, the Ming Dynasty reportedly experienced a meteor shower so severe it resulted in a “rain of rocks”, killing several tens of thousands of people, according to some official sources
7r9Bx TIL about Burning Mountain in Australia, where a coal seam has been burning nonstop for 6000 years
R7pm6 TIL the murder rate in the capital of Venezuela is so high that each year 0.1% of the population is murdered