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TIL students and lecturers at the University of Plymouth left a computer keyboard in the enclosure of six Celebes crested macaques in Paignton Zoo in Devon in England for a month. had only succeeded in partially destroying the machine, using it as a toilet and mostly typed the letter, "s"

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X0gZj TIL that Jean Baptiste Lully, a famous composer, died from gangrene after striking his own foot with a conducting staff
xmj1 TIL that a 13-year-old boy from Qom, Iran, called Hossein Fahmideh disabled an Iraqi tank and halted the advance of an entire Iraqi tank column at the cost of his life in Kermanshah. He later was awarded the 1st Grade Fath medal (posthumously) and the date of his death is now a holiday in Iran.
6ENo8 TIL a recent study showed that subjects preferred to give themselves electric shocks rather than occupy themselves with their own thoughts for 15 minutes. Most people seem to prefer to be doing something rather than nothing, even if that something is negative
EaBx TIL that the news reporter in Zootopia is a different animal depending on region. For example, in the US release he’s a moose, in Australia he’s a koala, in Brazil he’s a jaguar, and in Japan he’s a tanuki.
G6Lg TIL a family of people with blue skin lived in Kentucky for many generations. The Fulgates of Troublesome Creek are thought to have gained their blue skin through combination of inbreeding and a rare genetic condition known as methemoglobinemia.