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TIL an orangutan named Pony was used as a sex slave in a village in Borneo. She would automatically ‘assume the position’ whenever a man neared her. It took over a year for authorities to free her because she was a favorite of the locals who fought against her release.

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4Xk9o TIL that during apartheid, the South African Chemical & Biological weapons program differed in its aims from the programs of many countries in that a major focus of the South African program was to develop non-lethal agents to help suppress internal dissent.
rW6o TIL that a program such as PRISM will probably never actually detect terrorists because of “Bonferroni’s Principle”
4XR6b TIL that in Django Unchained, Leonardo DiCaprio felt uncomfortable saying the 'N' word repeatedly, so Samuel L. Jackson pulled him aside and said, "Hey motherfucker, this is another Tuesday for us. Let's go!"
x6VQg TIL Cecil Jacobson, a fertility doctor who used his own sperm to impregnate his patients without informing them, was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for Biology in 1992, “for devising a simple, single-handed method of quality control.”
neeD9 TIL that infants as young as 9 months old have been shown to be able to understand that other people need help, even before they are capable of helping them themselves.