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TIL in 1945 a group of Soviet school children presented a US Ambassador with a carved US Seal as a gesture of friendship. It hung in his office for 7 years before discovering it contained a listening device.

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e0W46 TIL 17-year-old Peter Woodcock was Canada's youngest serial killer, After murdering 3 children between 1956 - 1957 he was sent to a Psychiatric Facility, years after he was given permission to leave unsupervised where he killed his last victim, He was classed as "The Killer They Couldn't Cure"
x7wk TIL: The astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil failed to measure the transit of Venus in 1761, waited 8 years in Africa to try again, failed because of bad weather, and then came home to find that his relatives had declared him dead and plundered his estate.
1a887 TIL a 2017 University of Iowa experiment concluded that pigeons can understand concepts of space and time, but not exactly how they do it. The birds “judged longer lines to also have longer duration and judged lines longer in duration to also be longer in length.”
N9yJ TIL that Jackie Chan voiced the character of Shang in the Chinese release of the Walt Disney animated feature, Mulan. He also performed the song “I’ll Make a Man Out of You”, for the film’s soundtrack.
nkMB TIL a 2005 study taught capuchin monkeys the value of money using small silver coins. During one experiment, a monkey was observed trading a coin for sex. The monkey who received the coin promptly traded it for a grape.