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Jun 02, 2020

TIL British academics conducted an experiment with 6 monkeys & typewriters inspired by the famed "an infinite number of monkeys will eventually type out Shakespeare's plays" theory. After 4 weeks, the monkeys had typed out 5 pages, mostly of the letter S, then "got bored and shit on the keyboard"

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Apr 20, 2020

TIL Michelangelo and Leonardo were actually commissioned to paint frescos in the same room on opposite walls and it was to be Florence's premier "event" at the time. They hated each other, bickered, and neither every actually completed their work.

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Feb 11, 2020

TIL of Kelly, a dolphin whose trainers gave her fish for bringing them litter/dead gulls to clean her pool. She started hiding fish under a rock in her pool, then used fish to lure gulls which she brought to her trainers to get more fish. She taught her calf the strategy, who taught more calves.

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Feb 02, 2020

TIL about Aphantasia, the condition of not being able to make a mental image. People with Aphantasia can not visualise images in their head, so telling them to count sheep to fall asleep literally doesn’t make any sense to them. It is estimated that only 2% of Humans are living with it

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Dec 26, 2019

TIL In 2009, two scientists from the University of Oxford spent three years, and £300K of taxpayer dollars, to determine if ducks liked water. They discovered that they do, in fact, like water.

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Jun 27, 2019

TIL - in 2001, Steve Jobs described a secret new technology that would be bigger than the internet. He also claimed cities would be built around the new device. It was later revealed to be the segway scooter

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