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TIL there is one wild monkey population in Europe and it’s growing - Barbary macaques of Gibraltar

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yD7p TIL Retta’s (Dona Meagle from Parks and Recreation) aunt, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, is the President of Liberia; the first female head of state in Africa.
R75O1 TIL there is a 1 in 71 chance that an asteroid will impact earth in 2073 - 2074
nWN9b TIL Hatsune Miku (a virtual pop idol) made an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman in 2014. A bewildered Dave compared the experience to "like being on Willie Nelson's tour bus".
OoJk7 TIL of Williams Syndrome, a condition that makes you friendly
v90D TIL of the 1987 Goiânia accident in Brazil. Two scrap merchants stole equipment left in an abandoned hospital and inadvertently released radioactive material from a radiotherapy device, resulting in 249 contaminations and four deaths