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TIL that some believe humans are the only animals with the ability to ask questions. Chimps that learned sign language can answer, but never ask questions. Responsorial singing (one person calls, group responds) might be the way humans started asking and answering questions.

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Oom6X TIL that during the Joker Pencil Trick scene in The Dark Knight was as dangerous as it looked. Charles Jarman, who played the Pencil Trick Thug, stated that he had to remove the pencil, in order to make it look realistic, before Joker (played by Heath Ledger) slammed his head on the table.
d80o9 Your dog could go vegan and still stay healthy.
GYrnJ TIL a couple spent 26 years replanting a rain forest in 1991 and now it covers over 300 acres of wildlife that is home to more than 200 globally endangered species of plants and animals, including Asian elephants and Bengal tigers.
awW9A TIL about Potoooooooo, a popular racing horse that was formerly known as Potatoes, but was changed because the person who wrote his name on his corn bin misheard it as "Pot-8-Os".
b9Q94 TIL Sharon Tate was the inspiration for Malibu Barbie