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

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ZKyR TIL that most sand on Hawaii’s beaches is organically based, specifically from Parrotfish doody
0d14N TIL when President McKinley was asked by his personal secretary to cancel his planned visit to the Temple of Music for safety reasons, McKinley asked his secretary why anyone would want to hurt him. McKinley would later get shot at the Temple of Music.
yVOgv TIL That Matt Bissonnette, the former DEVGRU operator who, under the pseudonym Mark Owen, wrote the first book about the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden was forced to turn over the almost $7 million he made from the book because he failed to get the book approved before it was published.
GA1vE TIL that the Most SNP, also known as the New Bridge or UFO Bridge in Bratislava, is the longest single pylon, single cable-stayed plane bridge in the world.
gMXBL TIL that during WWI in Germany, horses were considered army reservists; owners had to register them regularly, and the army kept detailed records on the locations of all horses. In the first weeks of the war, the German army mobilized 715,000 horses.