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TIL chimpanzees in Uganda are killing infants and attacking people because of havitat loss and them.moving into areas closer to humanity.

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Q7NL TIL that papercuts hurt so much because the cut often bleeds very little or not at all, leaving the skins pain receptors open to the air.
vPvyD TIL Very little of Franz Kafka's works were published during his lifetime and he burned 90% of his work. Works like The Trial and The Castle were saved when the executioner of Kafka's will ignored Kafka's request to have his remaining works destroyed.
9Mx6 TIL Texas uses Lennie Small (from Of Mice and Men) as the legal definition of mental retardation when executing criminals
Oojv7 TIL about Albert Gonzalez an American computer hacker and computer criminal who is accused of masterminding the combined credit card theft and subsequent reselling of more than 170 million card and ATM numbers from 2005 to 2007: the biggest such fraud in history.
VM1mZ TIL: Dr. King's mother was also shot to death after him, while she was in Ebenezer Baptist Church