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TIL that Frans de Waal won an Ig Noble Prize for discovering that chimpanzees can identify other chimpanzees individually by seeing photographs of their anogenital regions

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AN77l TIL of the "German Tank Problem", a statistics theory that came from the Allies in WW2 attempting the estimate German tank production based on the sequential serial numbers of captured/destroyed German tanks.
vAEL TIL that in keeping with Ireland’s neutrality policy in WW2, the Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach) expressed his condolences to the German ambassador when Hitler committed suicide
v1DbK TIL that Crossroads, the first ever Kazakh soap opera (1996-2000), was funded by the British government in order to promote capitalism, was modeled on 'EastEnders' and became wildly popular across Central Asia
d1G9 TIL A woodpecker’s tongue wraps around it’s brain to protect it while it hammers at 1500 g-force units
GVeJ TIL Tigers, leopards, and jaguars love Calvin Klein’s Obsession for Men. The scent is used to attract animals to cameras in the wilderness.