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TIL there have been cases of benevolent monKey groups that help to feed humans lost in the Amazon.

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b6ny9 TIL MD 20/20 is short for Mogen David fortified wine. Mad Dog is only a nickname for the drink.
loxxK TIL that Chicago is called The Windy City, not because of how windy it is, but because it referred to the city's politicians as being "full of hot air"
xVwYo TIL that Fakhruddin Razi (d.1210), a Persian Polymath, decentred our universe-centric ideas with his conception of a multiverse. This astonishing idea happened 300 years before Copernicus' more well-known revolution of moving western astronomical knowledge from geocentric to heliocentric
Y8kW TIL the word “huh” used to express confusion is the most universal sound humans make. It is prevalent in virtually every area, language, culture, and nationality.
0d1b1 TIL that England's High Court of Chivalry hasn't sat since 1954, and that was the first time since 1737. Before it heard the case in 1954, the Court had to rule whether or not it still existed.