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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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b919N TIL that The world's largest museum dedicated to an animal - The Crocodile Museum in Aswan. The museum is located in front of the Kom Ombo Temple, which was dedicated to worshiping the god Sobek, which takes the crocodile body.
P1Y4L TIL John Lennon of the Beatles tried to murder his mistress May Pang in 1973 after drinking and misunderstanding something she had said. The only reason he didn't kill her was because he was restrained by another person, Harry Nilsson.
WkDxd TIL that the islands of the Pacific nation of Kiribati extend 3900 km from east to west - further than the distance from Los Angeles to Miami, London to Cairo, Dubai to Moscow, or Bangkok to Seoul
7JbL TIL in 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around the Earth, in order to serve as a man-made ionosphere. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
oBGAr TIL many of the scenes in "Elf" were filmed at an abandoned psychiatric hospital in Vancouver. In the 50's, Riverview Hospital was home to more than 4,000 patients. The X Files, Supernatural, Saw, Deadpool 2 and many others have filmed scenes on the site.