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TIL Enterprising Kenyans pretended to be Somali pirates and gave fake interviews to foreign journalists for cash

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yVAjX TIL Painite, the rarest gem in the world, only has two dozen specimens ever found.
8ePKZ TIL a chimpanzee’s testicles are 1/3 the weight of its brain, compared to 3% for humans
b9AAQ TIL that our own stomach has to constantly secrete mucus to stop itself from being digested by our own stomach acid. Without that mucus, our stomach acid would eat through our stomach’s lining.
8axeP TIL of Helen Gandy who was Edgar Hoover's secretary for 54 years. The day of his death, she resigned and destroyed all of his personal FBI files that he used to manipulate key Washington figures.