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TIL Female capuchin monkeys throw rocks at male monkeys in order to indicate sexual interest.

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AVla TIL Adolf Hitler promised to end the use of tobacco in the military after the end of the war and encouraged close friends not to smoke, He even began to offer a gold watch to any of his inner circle who could quit.
4kRMN TIL that Chinchorro mummification technique was to remove the skin of the deceased to extract organs before sewing it back on. Additionally, after the mummies were removed to more humid climates, their skin is “melting.”
PYLkw TIL of the term "Ag-gag". Anti-whistleblower laws passed by the states that make it illegal to film or photograph animal rights abuses on factory farms.
Vak8 TIL the sudden (seemingly overnight) onset of white hair due to stress is known as “Marie Antoinette Syndrome”, named after the ill-fated queen whose hair turned white the night before her walk to the guillotine
jaxQ TIL that at the Battle of Stirling Bridge, William Wallace defeated British commander Hugh Cressingham, killed him, and used his dried skin to fashion his scabbard, belt, and hilt.