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TIL that according to Welsh legends fairies used to ride corgis into battle

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n7YW TIL American psychologist Harry Harlow put rhesus monkeys into a “Pit of Despair” for up to a year to study depression.
7xJM TIL During the first Gulf War the United States used bulldozers in an assault on entrenched Iraqi soldiers, burying between 80-250 people alive.
Z8dQQ TIL Biting on the aluminum foil can be painful and is usually noticed if you have metal in your mouth from dental work (e.g. fillings, crowns). Basically, when you bite on foil, you set up a battery in your mouth and the electrical current stimulates nerve endings in your tooth.
V8lD TIL that limpets always return to the same bit of rock, and that they grind the rock and their shells away until they form a perfect seal.
jNgPv TIL that the CIA funded Various African Civil Society Organizations (Such as the American Society of African Culture) to counter communism within the African Diaspora.