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TIL A small home in Cheyenne, Wyoming is home to 2,000+ shell companies.

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oBw0W TIL Japanese macaques or snow monkeys get their name because they live in the more snowy areas of Japan. Snow monkeys are the most northerly-living primates, other than humans, and they are known to congregate around thermal springs (onsen) in winter. They also enjoy rolling snowballs for fun.
7krO TIL that onions and other members of the genus Allium can be deadly for dogs, cats, guinea pigs, monkeys and other animals.
Z8By4 TIL The first COMPLETELY digital feature film was “The Rescuers Down Under” (1990)
VBRbZ TIL of Didymus Chalcenterus (literally Didymus Bronze-Guts) the most prolific known writer of antiquity who wrote between 3500 and 4000 treatises. He became known as "Book-Forgetter" since he was unable to remember what he had written previously and often contradicted himself.
ndWB TIL the pilot of an Aeroflot Airbus A310 let his son sit at the controls during a flight in 1994. His son turned off the autopilot controls, crashing the plane, and killing all 75 on board.