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TIL that great apes, including chimpanzees and orangutans, have absolutely no appreciation of music whatsoever. Research has shown they can’t tell the difference between Beethoven and Bieber, and that music is all just meaningless sound to them.

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b5Z9 TIL In response to artist Anish Kapoor buying the exclusive rights to Vantablack pigment, said to be the blackest shade of black, artist Stuart Semple created “the world’s pinkest pink”, and made it available to anyone except Kapoor; things then got messy.
EgJpV TIL in an unusual case of atavism, there is only one recorded case in medical literature of a congenital os penis AKA baculum. The baculum is otherwise absent from humans (where erection is achieved and sustained through blood pressure) though it is present in the other great apes.
KY09a TIL The Caesar Salad was not made anywhere or when near Caesar in the Roman times. But instead made by an Italian American In Mexico.
BrWVd TIL that Charlie Chaplin’s body was stolen from his Swiss grave in 1978, two months after he was buried. The bandits planned to hold the Chaplin family to ransom for its return, but the police tracked them down and ultimately recovered the body.
xdlg TIL Airedale Terriers carried messages for soldiers during WWI and were very dedicated in their duties. One named ‘Jack’ ran through half a mile of enemy fire. He made it to headquarters with his jaw broken and one leg badly splintered and died just after delivering his message