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TIL The legal battles over the "Monkey Selfie" ruined the photographers life to the point of making him drop photography to find work as a dog walker.

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e0RKJ TIL a Narwhal may have been adopted by a gang of all male Beluga whales. Scientists observed the narwhal with the whales for the last 3 years and the group have been observed playing games together.
rR4ro TIL Chrysler built 55 turbine-powered cars from 1963-1964. It could run on any fuel that could burn with oxygen, including perfume and tequila, and produced 130 horsepower. Only nine still exist.
0w0mj TIL there are less than 1 million slot machines in the now-US, while there are over 4 million Pachinko machines in Japan.
1aLJD TIL that Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, which is set in Japan to safely mock British institutions, was briefly banned in the UK in 1907 for fear of offending a visiting Japanese prince. The prince was very annoyed, because he'd wanted to see it.
N70RE TIL although they are often stereotyped as the richest ethnicity in the USA Jews aren't the richest ethnicity in the USA, with an average household income of 100k$ they are second, Indians are first with an average household income of 122k$