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TIL Mountain gorillas are naturally afraid of chameleons and nobody knows why.

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VM7d8 TIL that Waterloo, New York is considered the birthplace of the American holiday Memorial Day. It was first celebrated on May 5, 1866 with local business closing and residents decorating the graves of soldiers.
KGPR TIL - “The death of the chemistry set is almost an unintended consequence of the rise in consumer protection laws.”
wo76 TIL many American vodkas really are the same. They’re produced by a handful of commodity giants and sold to brands for dilution, filtering, and packaging. One distillery fills 3 separate brand partner bottles with the same potato vodka.
YpvyW TIL in the 1940's the American Government infected hundreds of Guatemalans with syphilis to study the effects of penicillin without their knowledge
gMjn4 TIL multiboxing in gaming can be traced back to as far as April 1992, with the TinTin++, a MUD client made up of 700 lines of C code and which allowed playing and botting multiple characters. The Merc (MUD) developers discussed a programmatic way to detect multiboxing on Usenet in 1993.