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TIL Gibraltar is home to around 230 monkeys. They are known to steal from and even attack people.

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aw7Ro TIL of Fazal Din, a British Indian Army soldier who was impaled by the sword of a Japanese officer . He pulled out the sword, killed the officer who stabbed him and another enemy soldier, destroyed an entire enemy position, and walked 25 yards with a hole in his chest to deliver his report.
vJxr TIL that Oliver Cromwell was disinterred in 1661 for a “posthumous execution.” His decapitated head was passed around between collectors and museum owners until finally being re-buried in 1960.
ADvv7 TIL Isaac Singer, the inventor of the Singer Sewing machine had 24 children across the USA, UK and France. Six of these children came from a relationship with Isabella Eugenie Boyer, a 19 year old French woman that the Statue of Liberty was based on. He left $13m estate to his 20 surviving children.
gRY4 TIL that a study found that an additional ten trees on a given block corresponded to a one-per-cent increase in how healthy nearby residents felt and that patients with rooms in hospitals overlooking trees vs. those who’s rooms do no also recover and are discharged by about one day faster.
jNKYR TIL that lesbian couples are two and a half times more likely to get divorced than male same sex couples