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TIL that cheetahs in captivity have high anxiety and greatly benefit when they’re given emotional support dogs.

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v1n64 TIL that under Kim Il-Sung in 1956, North Korea adopted a national policy of self sufficiency named 'Juche'. By the end of his term North Korea had it's own textile industry built around a locally sourced material named Vinylon and had one of the lowest petroleum dependency rates globally.
DlgY TIL that Charles Hires, the first person to successfully market a commercial brand of root beer, decided to call his drink “root beer” despite it not containing any alcohol because he wanted to market it to Pennsylvania coal miners
Zp7K4 TIL that Cluster headaches - a disorder with no known cause that affects roughly 0.05% of people per year and causes headaches regarded as the most severe pain known to medicine - received less than $2 million in research funding from the US National Institutes of Health between 1998-2013.
R5ly4 TIL standard greetings likely evolved from handshaking to hierarchical bowing to handshaking, against which a French society was formed to abolish 'le shake-hands' as a vulgar English innovation
7WBp TIL that in 1996, Charlie Sheen paid $6,537.50 to buy 2,615 tickets to a Major League Baseball game at Anaheim Stadium, hoping to catch a home run ball. Sheen and three of his friends sat alone, 20 rows up, but no home runs were hit that day.