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TIL Chimpanzees and monkeys have entered the Stone Age

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PKOJ TIL in 1960, the computer at NORAD warned with 99.9% certainty that the Soviets had just launched a full-scale missile attack against North America. NORAD later discovered that the Early Warning System in Greenland had interpreted the moon rising over Norway as a missile attack from Siberia.
OGgR1 TIL: You can't take pictures in the Sistine Chapel because a Japanese broadcaster said so and the Vatican ran with it
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