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TIL that some chimpanzees and monkeys have entered the stone age

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v1xD8 TIL of the Lululemon murder. The victim Jayna Murray was great and stabbed at least 322 times and the medical examiner said she was likely for most of it. She had 107 defensive wounds alone. The murderer killed her because she got caught stealing a pair of pants.
VxQp TIL In 2004 Madrid bombings, FBI wrongly arrested an American man based on fingerprint evidence who had never been to Spain in his entire life. They later apolozied for the debacle.
GYbE5 TIL of Ken Alibek, last USSR 1st Deputy Director of Biopreparat. Before defecting to the US in 1992 he destroyed vast bioweapon (BW) stockpiles and production facilities but could not stop all future BW work in Russia. His 1999 book Biohazard details the USSR’s secret, treaty-violating BW program.
ep7e6 TIL, A Personal Trainer named Tom Mansfield accidentally overdosed on caffeine after he miscalculated the amount of powder he was meant to use on kitchen scales. He drank the equivalent of 200 cups of coffee in one cup.
oRyPo TIL that an eye has 2 million moving parts along with millions of rods and cones cells.