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TIL that the "Mandrill", the largest and arguably strongest of the Old World Monkeys, is the closest living relative to the smaller and weaker "Drill".

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wy87 TIL hundreds of excavating machines (worth millions of dollars) have been buried underground in London because abandoning them is cheaper than digging them back out
mVZP TIL the cougar holds the Guinness record for the animal with the highest number of names, with over 40 in English alone.
4nvX TIL, Sunday’s Breaking Bad was dedicated to a teen who died of cancer. He turned down the chance to hear how it all ends saying he “wanted to find out along with everyone else”.
GAVj TIL a woman sued Walmart for charging her $1.00 on a $0.98 item and was awarded $180.00, making it the most successful lawsuit with the award being 9000 times the disputed amount
0d5KN TIL about “Draupadi Pratha,” a rare tradition practiced in the Indian Himalayan states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, where a woman marries multiple brothers in the same family (fraternal polyandry), inspired by the Mahabharata’s Draupadi, and followed historically to preserve family land.