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

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p85e4 TIL Connaught Place, an example of Georgian architecture, was made to serve the elite living in Delhi and was inspired by the Royal Crescent in Bath. It also boasts of India’s first underground and air-conditioned market, Palika Bazaar
R7171 TIL that jalapeños are actually red when they’re ripe and they are spicer and sweeter than green ones.
lBrG TIL prisoners in China are reportedly being forced to gold mine in games like WOW to build up credits that prison guards can trade for real money
o9xL TIL a venomous Brazilian wandering spider that somehow made its way to Britain survived falling into a freezer, having boiling water poured over it, and being microwaved in a jar. Later it was inadvertently released within hospital grounds.
9YKBG TIL Research shows that starting school at 10am instead of 8:30am halves student illness and improves academic performance.