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TIL an orangutan from a zoo was reintroduced to the wild in Borneo and began spear fishing after watching local fishermen.

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rRZoe TIL that in 1970s, people in Cambodia were killed for being academics or for merely wearing eyeglasses!
aA6y TIL sleeping on the job is acceptable in japan. It is viewed as exhaustion from working hard. Some people fake it to look committed to their job.
4kgOa TIL “Bésame Mucho” (“Kiss Me a Lot”) was written in 1941 by Consuelo Velasquez, who was about 15 years old at the time, in bolero style. Inspired by the Nightingale Aria from the opera “Goyescas” by Enrique Granados, she said that she had never been kissed when she wrote the song.
69P4W TIL: A genetic study, published in 2020, revealed Tutankhamun had the haplogroups YDNA R1b, which originated in western Asia and which today makes up 50–60% of the genetic pool of modern Europeans
Gx4g TIL that despite knowing that a ceasefire would occur at 11am, many Generals continued to send their troops into battle right up until the last minute. Hundreds of lives were wasted on the final day of World War I.