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TIL that in 1924 in South Bend, Indiana a Chimpanzee was Arrested and Convicted for Smoking

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m1RZp TIL that Danish artist Kim Larsen once moved to America around 1980. Despite releasing two albums, he wasn't successful there and returned back to Denmark a few years later
aoyb TIL a 37-yo German woman who suffered an accident at the age of 20 that left her blind also had Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personalities). One of her personalities, a teenage boy, can see.
mKO TIL : There was a dog who waited for a person at a bus stop everyday for 15 years, after the person had died.
yQbEV TIL honeybees sleep between five and eight hours a day, some bees hold each other's legs as they sleep. Colonies are divided into different sectors of work. There are cleaners, nurses, security guards, also collection bees whose sole job is to cache nectar in comb. Promotions happen as well.
0dkyM TIL that Mt. Washington in New Hampshire is considered the place with the "worst weather on planet earth" rivaling the Himalayas and polar regions.