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TIL monkeys DO have vocal tracts for speaking, they just don't have the brain wiring to do it

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xWVB TIL that An avenue is traditionally a straight road which emphasize arrival at a landscape or architectural feature and A boulevard is usually a widened, multi-lane arterial street with a median and landscaping between the curbs and sidewalks on either side.
yQEra TIL a bouncing bomb is a bomb designed to bounce to a target across water in a manner to avoid obstacles such as torpedo nets, and to allow both the bomb's speed on arrival at the target and the timing of its detonation to be pre-determined, in a similar fashion to a regular naval depth charge.
6EELl TIL you lose about a pound of weight everynight while you sleep, just by breathing.
X0M6R TIL in China, censorship became a huge industry, one of a major city Jinan is famous for it, even got a nickname "The capital of censorship"
QJkeE TIL that one of Jacqueline Lee Bouvier‘s famous quotes is “The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship” and after her husband John F Kennedy was assassinated she married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis who is valued at $2.3 billion today