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TIL - That Chimpanzees Make and Use Spears

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6w8W TIL Bayer once gave thousands of people AIDS to preserve their profit margins
Menkm TIL that the "gas pedal" (accelerator) on modern car engines actually first controls the amount of airflow, and then the ECU decides how much gas/petrol is injected.
X0b78 TIL that the iris has a fine texture that, like fingerprints, is determined randomly during embryonic gestation. There are so many factors that go into the formation of these textures (the iris and fingerprint) that the chance of false matches for either is extremely low.
awQK0 TIL that Weenie, the dog from 2001 educational kids programming show Oswald, was actually female
epQrb TIL Matt Groening was approached to adapt his 'Life in Hell' comic for The Tracey Ullman Show. Fearing he’d lose ownership and hurt his comic if the show failed, Groening quickly created The Simpsons