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TIL A monkey paid for sex after learning how to use money.

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vPM8B TIL A random variable can have undefined expectation and variance if it follows a Cauchy distribution
Y7XRZ TIL of Hannah Beswick; who was so afraid of being buried alive that she paid her physician to be kept above ground and be provisionally checked for signs of life after she died. She was finally buried 110 years after her death, being declared "irrevocably and unmistakably dead"
YZ7 TIL there was one US Congress member killed in the line of duty, Leo Ryan. He was gunned down while attempting to help families escape Peoples Temple right before the Jonestown Massacre.
JNVB TIL The Dalai Lama eats meat, for health reasons and out of respect for his hosts on his travels
DLZe TIL they have discovered sharks living in an underwater volcano