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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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b9RpQ TIL the lyrics of 'Smack My B*tch Up' alternate between the titular line and the line 'Change my pitch up'
0daj5 TIL that only 3 weeks after their wedding, Oscar-winning actor Gig Young [who had starred in 'Rear Window' and 'The shoot horses, don't they', Etc.] murdered his wife (who was half his age), before committing suicide himself (1978).
pYRrZ TIL that tickets to the first Superbowl cost just $12, which is approximately $106 when adjusted for inflation.
6O77 TIL that a man served 31 years in jail for a crime he did not commit, and the state compensated him only $75.
P1AlV TIL in 2009, for the first time in history, two satellites (Russian and American) collided in space at 26,000 MPH. There was so much debris that people on Earth could see it falling from the sky. One day, residents of Kentucky heard a sonic boom, which NWS confirmed was space debris.