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TIL that female bonobos rub their clitorises together every 2 hours on average

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9Z6m TIL there was a 50,000 word novel written in 1939 that doesn’t use a single letter “E”
yQwRa TIL that a Cantonese phrase used by parents upset by their kids is that "it'd be better to have given birth to barbecued pork instead of you". It comes from the use of meal tickets in 1950s China in which meat tickets were highly priced and barbecued pork was a luxury.
N7Gd1 TIL Other than humans, the only other known mammal that enjoys eating chili peppers is the treeshrew.
LyoP TIL that elephants not only tend to grieve for their dead, they also have the ability to recognize skulls of other elephants. They examine the remains with their feet and trunks, paying special attention to the skulls and tusks of even long-dead elephants.
BGXr TIL of Jin Ling cigarettes, a brand of cigarettes that is never legally sold and is designed explicitly for smuggling and cigarette tax evasion.