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TIL Chimpanzees can recognise eachother not only from their faces, but also by looking at their butts

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Bjge TIL that when Lodewijk van den Ber designed an experiment for the Space Shuttle, NASA asked for a list of eight people who could fly in orbit to run it. Adding his own name to finish the list, to van den Ber’s amazement he became the first Dutch spaceman despite his age (53) and physical condition.
0d7Dp TIL that the average American buys 53 new pieces of clothes each year.
PgxO TIL that the Danes saved almost all Danish Jews during WW2
rjye Til: Gaylord Perry, a Major League Baseball played with the giants for 7 years and never hit a home run. The giants manager joked with reporters saying, “They’ll put a man on the moon before Perry hits a home run.” On July 20, 1969, Gaylord Perry hit a home run
YpL0A TIL before the metric system was adopted, there was over 250,000 different units of measurement in France varying from town to town.