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TIL: Swordfish can heat up their eyes in order to hunt better

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LkOv9 TIL that in 2005, scientists taught monkeys the concept of money. Not long after, the first prostitute monkey appeared.
neDZ7 TIL that after WWII, a small electronics shop was built in a bomb-damaged department store in Tokyo. The company, Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, had only $530 and 8 employees. The company invented Japan's first tape recorder and, in 1958, changed its name to Sony.
nWWkG TIL Justice Wilson was briefly incarcerated in a debtor's prison where he continued to be a Supreme Court Justice. He was in such debt that he largely abdicated his position on the Supreme Court for the last two years of his life to flee from creditors to who he owed money.
LL4P TIL: Mount Rushmore was originally supposed to be the president’s from head to waist but due to lack of funding they stopped construction
pYvx8 TIL Former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman's son once married Bill's ex-wife's mother, making Bill Wyman stepfather of his former mother in law, as well as stepgrandfather of his former wife