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TIL Dogs have ‘Eureka moments’ and enjoy the experience of solving a problem in order to obtain a reward.

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GAPxQ TIL that the fastest time to solve three Rubik’s Cubes while juggling them is 4 minutes and 31.01 seconds, achieved by Que Jianyu of China in 2018.
4X4Y6 TIL that up until the 1600s, a “black swan” was a metaphor for something that did not exist. Then a group of Dutch explorers became the first Europeans to see black swans in Western Australia in 1697, and the phrase was amended to mean “a perceived impossibility that might later be disproven.”
g0B9 TIL of Hans Münch, an SS physician who refused to assist in the murder of inmates at Auschwitz. He was the only member of the SS at Auschwitz acquitted entirely, mostly due to hundreds of inmates testifying in his favor.
ZpYZR TIL Star Citizen has raised 600 million dollars from its backers
rRoA0 TIL there is a recording of President of United States Lyndon B. Johnson ordering pants, asking for enough waist for 10-15 lbs of weight change each month, an extra inch "from where the zipper ends...back to my bunghole." to "let out...down where your nuts hang."