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TIL the person credited with inventing the pot brownie is actually named Mary Jane

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M7oX7 TIL about Rosalía Abreu who was the first person to successfully breed chimpanzees in captivity.
6E88X TIL about The Gospel of Wealth, an 1889 article by Andrew Carnegie that became a guiding philosophy for philanthropy as a moral obligation for the wealthy to spend their fortunes helping others that became a trend and expected of the very successful. He said: "He who dies rich, dies disgraced."
x659k TIL Beer contains powerful compounds called “phytoestrogens” that mimic estrogen in the human body. In addition, many beers stimulate a hormone called prolactin–the same hormone that causes breast growth and milk production
epl7E TIL that it is a regular hazard of the barber industry to get hair splinters. Cut hair is apparently very sharp and can worm its way into your flesh.
69AdW TIL someone patented a brass monkey arranged so that, when it got cold enough, its balls would freeze off