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TIL Chimpanzees have entered their own Stone Age: they have been using stone tools for generations.

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b64wa TIL that Roman Polanski was originally going to plead guilty to charges in return for no jail. However, after hearing the judge was planning to go back on his word and jail him, Polanski fled the United States never to return.
d5oj TIL that a woman won $40,000 as a settlement from NYC due to police repeatedly arresting her for going topless in public. However, it’s perfectly legal for men and women to be topless in NYC
nebvr TIL some American colonists thought tomatoes were poisonous. To prove their safety to other NJ locals, Robert Gibbon Johnson brought a basketful to the town square and dramatically ate them in front of an audience of ~2000. At least one person fainted as the crowd cheered him on.
d8J48 TIL about the Alcubierre drive, a solution of Einstein's field equations in general relativity by which a spacecraft could theoretically achieve apparent faster-than-light travel without breaking any physical laws. It would have to be made of matter of negative energy density, which may not exist.
NX098 TIL: before the 2014 movie Interstellar, black holes were depicted in media as spinning whirlpools in space, but the movie used a team of physicists to determine how a black hole would look to the human eye