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TIL About Kenza, a monovo monkey that can understand complex human sentences and build mental representations, including games.

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lo4MN TIL of Francisca Rojas, the first criminal to be caught using fingerprints as evidence
m1GvM TIL of John Darwin, who faked his death in 2002 to escape mounting debts. He avoided detection for five years until he returned to the UK, faking amnesia, to get a passport so he could own property in Panama. His plan collapsed when a photo of him and his wife taken years after his "death" emerged.
l7pwa TIL, The Netherlands gift Canada 10,000 Tulip bulbs for them to plant in Ottawa as a tradition each year to thank them for protecting the Dutch Royal Family in World War 2 😭😭
4XEGb TIL cartographers protect their intellectual property by slipping fake streets, or even entire towns, into their maps. If the street/town shows up on another map, they know it was stolen. Dictionary writers have been known to do the same thing with fake words.
ep4QL TIL that the oldest description of cancer dates back to 3000 B.C. The Edwin Smith Papyrus described tumors of the breasts that were removed by a tool called the fire drill.