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TIL that monkeys once battled with humans for over 2 hours for drinking water

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78a1b TIL Russian Czar Ivan the Terrible beat his daughter-in-law so badly that she miscarried her baby. When his son was angry about the beating, Ivan struck his heir in the head so fiercely that he died 5 days later.
OoPpL TIL that Vincent Price signed autographs as Dolores del Río because he had promised the actress before she died not to let people forget her
Arp7 TIL It took the Wizard of Oz’s studio art department almost a week to settle on the final shade of yellow used for the Yellow Brick Road.
VMjkk TIL Dan Rather got in a fight with a cop at the 1968 Democratic Convention
Xr08 TIL there is a video game for kids with cancer where you fight cancer cells inside your body. The game “significantly improved treatment adherence and indicators of cancer-related self-efficacy and knowledge in adolescents and young adults who were undergoing cancer therapy.”