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TIL that some chimpanzees have been observed sharpening sticks with their teeth and using them as spears to hunt small mammals.

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rRKge TIL before the landing of Apollo 14, its landing radar failed to function. Astronauts fixed the problem by turning it off and on again.
m1m6y TIL that actor Red Foxx was only 49 when he starred in Sandford & Son. He wore makeup to look older.
B4rr TIL a Russian named Vasili Arkhipov avoided causing WWIII after refusing his captain’s orders to launch nuclear torpedoes at US war ships during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. 2 of the 3 officers on board wanted to fire the missile, however a unanimous decision was required.
grn84 TIL that college football is graced by a player named General Booty. Hailing from a line of athletic Bootys he is the nephew of former Florida Marlin Josh Booty and Minnesota Viking John David Booty.
yQA6a TIL of Susanne Ripton, a Jew who survived the holocaust as a child. In 1940, when she was 4, soldiers broke into her home in Paris. She was saved when a neighbour rushed in and said that she was her daughter. She spent years hiding. In 1969, she discovered her parents had been killed at Auschwitz.