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TIL Capuchin monkeys at Brazil’s Serra da Capivara National Park, are 3,000 years into their own 'Stone Age'

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RAJ4 TIL a motorist on a quiet highway stopped in the middle of a lane in order to allow a family of ducks to cross unharmed. By doing so, she caused a major accident that killed two people.
wLvKP TIL the five-dot pattern commonly found on six-sided dice is called a Quincunx.
6R1Y TIL In Mozambique, overhead power lines have to be at least 12 m (39 ft) high to permit safe passage of giraffes.
WkVnL TIL the word mile originates from the measurement of one thousand paces of a Roman soldier (mille passus)
JxOk TIL that only 17 Americans in history have run a marathon in under 2:10:00. 32 members of the Kalenjin people accomplished that feat in October of 2011 alone.