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TIL - That Chimpanzees Make and Use Spears

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GYEm5 TIL That this day 125 years ago physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen becomes the first person to observe X-rays a significant scientific advancement that would ultimately benefit a variety of fields most of all medicine by making the invisible visible.
aNkN TIL the first female to circumnavigate the globe was a goat, affectionately nicknamed “The Goat”, who traveled around the world twice with Captains Wallis and Cook. Cook grew so fond of her he allowed her to live at his home after their voyage and noted her death in his personal journal
yVkxX TIL of a Brazilian football referee that stabbed a player to death, which resulted in the crowd storming the pitch, stoning him to death, beheading him, and quartering him before finally sticking his head on a stake on the pitch in 2013.
BP7e TIL the state of Ohio gives out different colored license plates for those convicted of DUI
VB6xD TIL: Oreo was created in 1912 as an imitation of Hydrox. Oreo eventually surpassed Hydrox in popularity, which resulted in the Hydrox cookies being perceived by many as an imitation of Oreo, despite the opposite being the case