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TIL Scientists have been communicating with apes via sign language since the 1960s; apes have never asked one question.

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N79VJ TIL that the Humane Slaughter Act, a United States federal law supposedly designed to reduce animal suffering during slaughter, does not mention chickens at all and poultry plants are exempt from following it.
nedpG TIL there are no documented cases of wild orca whales attacking humans...and that orcas are...dolphins?!
7r9yP TIL of the frog galvanoscope. The first electrical voltage testers were made by using a frog's leg with the sciatic nerve still attached and connecting two points on the leg to a potential electrical source.
xVPeb TIL in the US radio-controlled clocks precisely coordinate time shifts with the official atomic clock at the Physical Measurement Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. The atomic clock keeps time for the entire country and will neither gain or lose a second over the course of 100 million years.
eprxb TIL In the 1600s, the Royal Society almost went bankrupt publishing a book of fish images. This led to them not being able to fund Issac Newton’s manuscripts. His work was almost canceled, until Edmund Halley fundraised for it. They were so broke, Halley was then offered his salary in fish books.