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TIL that Orangutans have been known to wash themselves with soap because they’ve seen us doing it, it has no benefit to them, they just do it anyway.

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xv55 TIL that the inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter
ExkX TIL there is a huge catfish known as the Piraiba, one of which was reported as having swallowed a human whole in the 90s.
VBJMB TIL many Nazis and their families received pensions from the German government
nlVP TIL The crime fiction author Patricia Cornwell was called “monstrously stupid” by the curator of a British museum for destroying a painting by Walter Sickert in search of proof he was Jack the Ripper
yV59X TIL that an ESA Astronaut nearly drowned in his spacesuit during a 2013 spacewalk.