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TIL that young female chimpanzees in the wild play with sticks like dolls, revealing possible biological and social roots for gendered play behaviors

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m1PbO TIL BBC executives had decided not to air the pilot of the sitcom Are You Being Served but needed filler material to broadcast when the 1972 Summer Olympics were interrupted by the Munich Massacre. The show went on to run for 10 seasons and spawned a movie and a 2 season spinoff series
EAE0 TIL that the Tollund Man, a 2000 year old corpse found in a Danish bog was so well preserved, those who found it mistook it for a murder victim and called the police.
Egy87 TIL Roughly 1 in 8 people (12.3%) in the USA live in the NYC, Chicago or LA urban areas. These urban areas account for only 0.2% of America's land
9w41Q TIL that the English Premier League doesn't consist of the same teams from year to year, barring an expansion franchise. Instead, the three worst teams of the 20 are relegated to the lower league, the "Championship", and the top three winners in that league move to the Premier.