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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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j6gLQ TIL that some cities have a "night mayor" who is specifically in charge of developing a city's nightlife. The title originated in Amsterdam.
6En5Z Til that Beethoven has "curious tempo selections" in his works that musicians today generally adapt the tempo from what was written. Historians believe in 1815, a deafening Beethoven was gifted an inaccurate early metronome by J. Mälzel that is likley to have been sabotaged/broken in a fit of rage.
5Y4jn TIL Coca-Cola still uses coca-leaves as an ingredient in its syrup. The cocaine is removed at a unique US government authorized factory in New Jersey.
QJ8o9 TIL that the earliest written record of the Finnish language is someone saying "I want to speak Finnish, [but] I am not able".
8ekNL TIL in a double-blind test, professional violinists preferred the sound of a modern violin over multi-million-dollar Stradivarius violins