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TIL Shock G and Humpty Hump from Digital Underground are the same person.

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6NvY TIL that as a teenager Vlad the Impaler was a hostage of the Ottoman Turkish Sultan, and learned Turkish during this time. Later, while fighting the Ottomans, Vlad would disguise himself as a Turk, infiltrate and destory a series of fortresses.
QNLbX TIL about how scientists taught monkeys the concept of money. Not long after, the first prostitute monkey appeared.
PY1MG TIL the founder of the Alaskan Independence Party, which advocates Alaska's secession from the United States, was murdered in a botched plastic explosives sale and was buried in Dawson City, Yukon, reflecting his oft-stated wish not to be buried on American soil.
a8JeL TIL that capuchin monkeys rub their own urine onto their body and hands to signal their attractiveness and availability to potential mates
rRyrd TIL In 1964, a Swedish art gallery displayed 4 paintings by unknown artist Pierre Brassau. Every single art critic praised the ‘avant-garde’ work- except one, who said, ‘only an ape could have done this’. In fact it was all a hoax by a journalist and 'Brassau’ was actually a 4-year-old chimpanzee.