TIL that Bubbles, Michael Jackson’s pet chimp, is still alive and leads his own band of chimps at the Center for Great Apes in Florida. He’s shy around cameras and spends a lot of his time painting.
TIL archaeologist Howard Carter, who discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb on 4 November 1922, was later found to have kept relics from the site. A 1934 letter and his executor’s records confirmed at least 18 stolen items, which to avoid a diplomatic incident, were later returned to Egypt.
TIL that in 2023, a survey found that 50% of vinyl record purchasers in the U.S. don’t own a record player to play their records on.