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TIL Ethiopian Baboons are starting to domesticate wolves

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kbom TIL that a father was denied access to see his premature twins in the NICU when Beyonce and Jay-Z had their daughter at the same time
olmo TIL Ray Bradbury first titled Fahrenheit 451 “The Fireman”, then called a local fire station to ask what temperature it would take to actually ignite books. The responding firemen placed him on hold and burnt a book, then reported that the heat required was “Fahrenheit 451″.
wLWrW TIL a 2015 study found that people were twice as likely to post a picture of a cat than a selfie online. There were more views per video of cats than of any other category of YouTube, & people didn't feel guilty about watching them instead of doing what they should've been doing
PYjYw TIL that a 2.85m statue of former President Bush stands in an Albanian town to show appreciation for US-led NATO airstrikes in 1999
yVkkX TIL in 1990 Marge Simpson wrote a letter to First Lady Barbara Bush after Barbara said The Simpsons was ‘the dumbest thing [she] had ever seen’.