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TIL young chimpanzees have better numerical memory than adult humans

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j47a TIL: English is the only language in the top ten most spoken languages that does not have a regulatory committee to approve spelling.
M715a TIL that despite its cultural presence as the doomsday scenario, current models and estimates believe that a nuclear winter is not a realistic outcome following a nuclear war. One analysis said so many successive things would need to go wrong it was akin to a coin landing on heads 40 times straight
0w1NN TIL the actor in the Xenomorph suit in Aliens never acted in another movie.
QN8Qa TIL The strongest human muscle based on its weight is the masseter. With all muscles of the jaw working together it can close the teeth with a force as great as 25 kg on the incisors or 90 kg on the molars.
JBJ1 TIL that, even though people often question the safety of vaccine ingredients, a typical dose contains less mercury than a tuna sandwich