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TIL that the western lowland gorilla’s scientific name is gorilla gorilla gorilla

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0pZ5 TIL that Crossfire on CNN was cancelled shortly after Jon Stewart exposed them when he was invited as a guest.
jNEeR TIL that Chevron and General Motors bought the patents for NiMH car batteries and used them to block electric vehicle development in the 90s and 00s
4O5a TIL that in 1973, a study asked doctors to pick out healthy people sent to a psych ward by the researches. Doctors suspected 84 people of being healthy. The researchers actually never sent the healthy people. This led to fundamental doubt of the validity of modern psychological evaluation.
69deX TIL about the origins of the expression “the toolies” (the Aussie version is NSFW)
wLJBE TIL - The Decameron is a frame story written in 1353 by Boccaccio, containing 100 erotic tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men sheltering in a secluded villa just outside Florence to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city.