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TIL that chimpanzees are thought to use the plant Aspilia as herbal medicine.

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DApj TIL the exhibition team that travels with Harlem Globetrotters actually won, once. “The Globetrotters lost track of the game and the score. Down 12 points with two minutes left to go. Forced to play normal basketball, they rallied but could not recover […] The crowd was dumbfounded.”
v1eDx TIL that over 10% of Canada’s population are descended from impoverished British children that were sent to work on Canadian farms between 1869 and 1939.
xjBD TIL when filming ‘The Princess Bride’ Andre the Giant would warm a freezing Robin Wright Penn (Princess Buttercup) simply by placing his huge hand on her head.
JY6pj TIL In 2011, a Brazilian man found a penguin covered in oil and close to death. He nursed him back to health and since then the Penguin swims 3 to 5 thousand miles every year to spend time with his human soulmate.
NrjM TIL The tallest building in the world (Burj Khalifa) was built without sewage, so all poop must be trucked out.