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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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MkD7 TIL that the movie Clerks was the first movie in history where the cost to license the soundtrack ended up being more than the production cost for the entire movie
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grdp8 TIL Present-day giant pandas are estimated to have diverged from their closest relatives, all other bears 20 million years ago, based on molecular data
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xV0g TIL Malcolm X copied every entry in the dictionary and read it out loud to become a better reader and writer.