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TIL Chimpanzees have been known to steal alcohol, get drunk, then attack humans after mistaking them for monkeys

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11GW TIL that the famous astronomer Fritz Zwicky liked to insult people by calling them ‘spherical bastards’, because “they were bastards no matter which way you looked at them.”
e0oRE TIL it's impossible to see your own eyes moving in a mirror due to a phenomenon called saccadic masking where the brain selectively blocks visual processing during rapid eye movements
JjG4 TIL a British POW in WWI was released by the Germans so he could visit his dying mother, and then returned because of a promise he had made the Kaiser.
E1wYV TIL FDR was almost killed by a US warship in WWII. During a secret trans-Atlantic trip, he asked for ship demos. One accidentally fired a torpedo at FDR's ship (which moved fast enough to avoid the hit). Afterward, the destroyer was routinely greeted with the hail "Don't shoot! We're Republicans!"
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