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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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agko TIL Anderson Cooper, soon after graduating college, forged a press pass and gained entrance to Myanmar to meet with students fighting the Burmese government. He was ultimately able to sell his home-made news segments to Channel One, launching his journalism career.
oRwBo TIL in 2010, McAfee deployed a defective update to their corporate customers that took critical devices offline and required manual work to remediate. Founder and CEO of CrowdStrike, George Kurtz, was CTO of McAfee at the time.
8a0JV TIL Ed Sullivan asked Buddy Holly to not play his song “Oh Boy” on his show because it was too suggestive. Holly refused, so Sullivan mispronounced Holly’s name and cut the feed from his guitar. The band was still a huge hit. When asked back again, Holly said Sullivan didn’t have enough money.
wL0gY TIL that Qatar is 25% female