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TIL that Scientists observed a wild orangutan (‘Rakus’) locate a plant used in SE Asia for pain & inflammation, pluck & chew up its leaves, apply plant juices to an injury on its right cheek, and then use the chewed plant as a bandage. Photos showed his wound closed within a month without problems:

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n9jP TIL or Horace Greasely, who escaped the Nazi death camps 200 times to meet with the woman he was in love with, and returned after every time because there was no other place to go to.
dBk8 TIL of Tetris Syndrome, which is when you play a game too long and you start to dream about it, and hallucinate about it on the edges of your vision.
R4v9 TIL- There was an all black regiment in WWI that the Germans feared so much they called them the “Harlem Hellfighters”. The never lost an inch of ground and none of them was ever captured.
KYG9R TIL that in Russia, posers can rent iPhone boxes or bouquet of flowers to pretend they've got one
wLlJ6 TIL that Denmark held a general election during German occupation in 1943. In a disappointing result for the occupiers, the Danish Nazi Party won just 2.1% of the vote.