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

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QNGwX TIL about “Dancing Mania”, a social phenomenon in Europe which involved outbreaks of up to thousands of people dancing erratically. Participants suddenly became violent at the color red, and would sometimes dance for days, or even to death.
avnA TIL that you will need a telescope 50 times the size of the Hubble to see objects left by humans on the moon. Even if we use the Hubble Space Telescope to look at the moon, a football stadium sized object would appear as only one pixel.
VAkD TIL Scientists in Japan have found a way to visualize images from dreams using MRI scans
9YAKQ TIL about Rai Stones, large donut-shaped stones weighing up to 4 tons which were used as currency on the island of Yap. Because it is hard to move the stones, buying something simply involves agreeing the stone changes ownership and 'recording' it in oral history.
B0aK TIL: Indian housewives hold 11% of the World’s gold. That is more than the reserves of USA, IMF, Switzerland and Germany put together.