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TIL Paignton Zoo stopped feeding bananas to their monkeys because it was unhealthy, like "giving them cake and chocolate".

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741O TIL the term “j'accuse”, coming from the title of an 1898 open letter from writer Emile Zola to the president of France during the Dreyfus Affair, is a synonym for a brave public expression of opinion against the abuse of power.
GAPWQ TIL Via Transilvanica hiking trail in Romania is probably the longest outdoor art exhibition in the world. The path is 1400km long and for each kilometer there is an andesite stone bollard marking the trail, each one hand-sculpted with a unique design.
Pp5w TIL in Iran it is forbidden for women to ride traditional bicycles in the belief that it is a sexual stimulant and “causes corruption". Women riders are attacked by vigilantes. The Iranian version of the Islamic bicycle has a “boxy contraption that hides a woman’s lower body.”
AD0Ra TIL Charlie Chaplin was into young girls. He fired an under aged girl from his movie after refusing to abort his child and narrowly escaped a sex scandal by marrying her in secret.
K9bR TIL that the Dwarves in the Tolkien universe are supposed to represent Jewish people. Tolkien stated:“The Dwarves of course are quite obviously—wouldn’t you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic.”