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MeQOA TIL monkeys can learn to use money. Capuchins that were taught to exchange silver discs for treats began budgeting for foods they liked, buying more of something when the price dropped, and started gambling. Eventually, rich monkeys even figured out they could pay each other for sex.
8n7b TIL in 1956, a magician was performing the “cut a person in half” trick using his wife for a televised performance. Immediately after she was divided, the host ended the show. People were horrified, thinking she had been killed, but time had just run out on the broadcast.
Ynn7 TIL - THC Gives Cancer Cells the Munchies Too, it causes them to undergo programmed cell death (apoptosis).
eZyk TIL in the U.S. it’s illegal for employers to tell employees not to talk to their co-workers about compensation
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