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TIL That Famous Actor Peter Dinklage used to play in a punk band named “Whizzy”

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KOl4Q TIL Dr. Jane Goodall set herself apart from traditional conventions by naming the animals in her studies of primates instead of assigning each a number. This also led her to develop a close bond with the chimpanzees and to become, to this day, the only human ever accepted into chimpanzee society.
WPWY TIL in 2006, American sculptor Luis Jiménez was killed when the head of his “Blue Mustang” sculpture fell on him and severed an artery in his leg. The Blue Mustang, nicknamed “Blucifer”, is 32 feet tall, weighs 9000 lb., and is currently on display at Denver International Airport.
QJDm9 TIL of Christopher Langan, the "smartest man in the world" who broke the ceiling of the IQ scale when tested. He worked as a bouncer in Long Island for 20 years while developing his Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe about the relationship of reality and the mind
MeDjW TIL 'Organic' food in the EU does not mean 'no pesticides.' It means up to 28 pesticides allowed.
vPVy8 TIL that Coconut Palms are not native to the Caribbean, they were introduced by European explorers to the region