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TIL That young female macaques regularly mount male sika deer stags.

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xAEb TIL in medieval times the Japanese used to dye their teeth black. It also acts as a dental sealant to prevent tooth decay. The reason for this was objects that were pitch black, such as glaze-like lacquer, were seen as beautiful.
OG9L7 TIL Leon Trotsky was murdered in Mexico in 1940 via ice axe by soviet agent Ramon Mercader. After Mercader was released from prison in 1960 he was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union medal and the Order of Lenin medal
dD9Lr TIL Despite being invaded by Axis forces during WWII, Egypt remained nominally neutral through most of the war before officially entering it in February of 1945.
nXPY TIL George Orwell sent a copy of 1984 to his idol, Aldous Huxley. Huxley wrote Orwell a letter, in effect saying, “Good book, but the future will be more like what I wrote in Brave New World, not 1984.”
oB5g8 TIL that Apollo astronauts may have found the oldest earth rock we know on the moon in 1971