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TIL that Boeing used to use ferrets to carry wires to inaccessible places on aircraft

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AyxB TIL researchers from Yale introduced the concept of money to Chimpanzees and soon after, they began paying for sex.
wQD8 TIL When the movie “Clue” was shown in theaters, different theaters were given 1 of 3 different endings.
KOV9E TIL that one of the earliest examples of “OMG” being used was in a letter to Winston Churchill in 1917. “I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis—O.M.G. (Oh! My God!)” – Lord Fisher
X079D TIL so many Royal English babies died that when Alfred of Great Britain died at age 1 in 1780 there was a policy against mourning the deaths of Royal children under age seven.
ADMEl TIL Levi Strauss has a pair of jeans from 1879 in their archive, the oldest surviving pair in existence