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TIL - That Chimpanzees Make and Use Spears

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b9bxa TIL that Antonio Meucci invented the telephone, not Alexander Graham Bell
LkaBZ TIL about Stuckie the coon hound that in 1960 chased a racoon 28 feet up inside the hollow trunk of a tree, then got stuck up there until loggers cut the tree down in 1980. He was mummified and almost perfectly preserved due to the tannins in the tree and inaccessibility to predators.
rRkbW TIL that North Korea trained some members of the Official IRA and the men posed as members of the Maltese Communist Party
9YQZm TIL that the word "meme" was coined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene as an attempt to explain the way cultural information spreads.
awAP9 TIL a Scottish woman named Maggie dickson, was sentenced to execution by hanging on 2nd sept. 1724, she survived the hanging and climbed out of her coffin as it was being transported. The courts ruled she was a free woman as the punishment had been carried out. Known after as 'half-hangit maggie'.