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TIL Economic researchers at Yale managed to successfully train Capuchin monkeys to understand and use currency. The result? The monkeys used it to buy….sex.

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aOpN TIL the editors of Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule pipe their footage through a videocassette recorder, and then hit the machine to simulate jumpy synchronization, to give it that poor quality feel.
lwg7 TIL of Sgt Earl Hale. While taking six SS officers prisoner, one slashed Hale’s throat. He survived and remained in the European Theater. Later, General Patton himself would berate him for being out of uniform until he produced a doctor’s note excusing him from wearing the required tie.
pVN8 TIL Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, longest name-place on Earth. Translate: “The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the slider, climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one.”
XW5Q TIL Senator Patrick Leahy is a huge fan of the Batman comics, and has appeared in all but one Batman movie since ‘Batman Forever’, as well as an episode of 'Batman: The Animated Series’.
9Y5kX TIL Betsy Ross almost certainly didn't make the first American flag. In fact she wasn't credited with making the flag until almost 100 years after the revolution.