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TIL that Michael Jackson's pet, Bubbles the Chimp, is still alive.

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DQ7dj TIL There is an ancient Chinese notation for playing guqin zither. Each note is written in abbreviated Chinese characters, with symbols telling you which fingers, location on instrument, and plucking techniques to use
mdDo TIL Nikola Tesla, who frequently had his ideas stolen, when asked about it said: “I don’t care that they stole my ideas… I care that they don’t have any of their own.”
MpRb TIL that touching baby birds will not cause mother birds to abandon them.
5ep9 TIL that “human intelligence” may have been caused completely by a random mutation, in which the jawbones of our ape ancestors became slightly shorter, allowing their brains to grow bigger in circumference
D1bGP TIL that the youngest person to serve in World War II was 12 years old and also received a Purple Heart.