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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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nWWyG TIL that during a drought in 2019, priests in Bhopal, India wed 2 frogs in order to appease the god of rain, 2 months later the frogs were divorced in order to stop the constant downpour of rain that destroyed over 9,000 homes.
X08Q TIL that 99.56% of guns in circulation are used for their intended legal purpose.
6EdlZ TIL that in 1974 Jimmy Carter gave an alumni speech at the University of Georgia Law School. Instead of honoring the alumni, he delivered a speech attacking the injustice in the judicial system so mercilessly that Hunter S. Thompson later named him as one of the three meanest people on Earth.
dkVQ TIL that if something is “hot as balls,” it’s about 93 degrees fahrenheit.
KYNXR TIL The Mendoza Line is baseball jargon for a .200 batting average, the supposed threshold for offensive futility at the Major League level. It is named after shortstop Mario Mendoza, who failed to reach .200 five times in his nine big league seasons.