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TIL - That Chimpanzees Make and Use Spears

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X0Omk TIL Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand
R01Q TIL British Airways edited out the cameo of rival Richard Branson and obscured the tail-fin of one of Branson’s Virgin Atlantic planes, in the in-flight version of the James Bond flick Casino Royale.
0VZv TIL the programming language Python is named after the comedy series “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”
16K04 TIL: that during a dissociative fugue, a person can suddenly travel far from home, assume a new identity, and live for days or even weeks without any memory of their former life.
VMDyQ TIL of the HMS Cockchafer, a British gunboat involved in the Wanhsien Incident. Chinese soldiers tried to seize British merchant ships as compensation for a boat accidentally sunk by a British ship and the Cockchafer intervened; the Cockchafer killed over 1000 Chinese and destroyed 1000 buildings.