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TIL Bob Dylan missed Woodstock, after being invited, because he didn’t like hippies.

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XEWl6 TIL - Not only do Chimpanzees eat a lot more meat than originally thought, but they hunt in organized groups with strategy to eat monkeys half their size. Spears are used. They eat so much meat that they threaten to wipe out entire populations. Smashing open a tortoise for meat is also on the menu.
xVarg TIL that VHEMT(Voluntary Human Extinction Movement) is an enviromental movement that calls for all people to not reproduce. They support human extinction primarily to prevent environmental degradation.
LkAv TIL that Eminem turned to Elton John for help during his drug addiction, and they still stay in contact to this day.
OxQ1 TIL: On this day in 1939, Lou Gehrig played his final game with the Yankees. He had played in 2,130 CONSECUTIVE games before being forced to retire by ALS, which would kill him 2 years later and become known as “Lou Gehrig’s Disease”
WkMNA TIL of Norman Borlaug, a scientist who developed and promoted higher-yield wheat, started the Green Revolution, and may have saved over a billion lives through better agriculture.