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Today I learned: The Capuchin Monkey is the most intelligent of the American Monkeys.

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7AVX TIL that all bananas (or nearly all) consumed in the United States are picked very green, then ‘flash ripened’ by exposing them to ethylene gas. I also learned (see wiki in 1st comment) that ethylene is the most-used organic compound in industry.
JYAZv TIL in the early 19th century, railroads were often built with iron straps, which had a tendency to come loose and impale passengers through the floor of railroad cars. They were known as "snake heads".
OoYyX TIL of Dr. William Moon—a one-eyed man who developed his own reading system for the blind in the 1840s after finding other methods unreliable. He called his method “Moon Code” and based it off of simplified Roman letters, which allowed almost anyone to learn it extremely quickly.
dDRod TIL that in 1933, FBI Director John Edgar Hoover learned of a namesake who had failed to pay a debt of $900 to a store in Washington. As Hoover was particular about paying his bills on time and so did not want to be associated with this disreputable behavior, he changed his name to "J. Edgar Hoover"
o8BR TIL Gordon Ramsay was kidnapped, held at gunpoint, and doused in gasoline during his investigation of the fishing practices around the shark fin soup industry.