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TIL that chimps in the wild will occasionally steal human infants and eat them.

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nVYP TIL A monkey hung himself with a gibbet of his making after witnessing many public executions and then examining a hangman’s noose.
jNmDn TIL that ants do not have lungs. Oxygen enters through tiny holes all over the body and carbon dioxide leaves through the same holes. There are no blood vessels. The heart is a long tube that pumps colorless blood from the head back to the rear and then back up to the head again.
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dVmQ TIL That 5,382 British Royal Marines held off 13,749 French and Spanish troops for 7 months after being told they would be relieved.
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