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TIL after his wife died because the nearest doctor was 70km away, Dashrath Manjhi carved a 360-foot-long and 30-foot-wide path through a mountain in 22 years, using a hammer and a chisel to make the path from his village to Wazirganj, with its doctors, jobs, and school, only 15 km away.

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gMa8W TIL in 2017 raccoons and chimps were put through the Aesop's Fable test, to see if they could learn to displace water to get food from a container. Many succeeded: the raccoons used their hands to manipulate the container in creative ways, and one chimp simply peed into the container (which worked).
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