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TIL that a recent study shows dogs make ‘puppy eyes’ deliberately to bond with humans

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BDZr TIL Ulysses S. Grant was also planned to be assassinated along with Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth, but did not attend the play at Ford Theater because their wives were not on good terms.
9YAaD TIL about Ewa Wiśnierska, a german paraglider that got surprised by a thunderstorm and got sucked up by a cumulonimbus cloud to an altitude of 10.000m (33.000ft). She survived temperatures of -50*C and extreme oxygen deprivation at a height higher than the Mt. Everest.
V88D TIL the first monkeys in South America likely drifted from Africa on a floating island of vegetation
MewM8 TIL Frank Freashwaters, the man known to many simply as the “Shawshank fugitive” for his 56 years on the run from an infamous Ohio correctional facility was captured in May 2015. After spending most of his life as a fugitive, Freshwater was cleared for release by a parole board in 2016.
EgY4X TIL that the word "tornado" was banned in 1886 by the U.S. Army Signal Corps when issuing weather forecasts for fear of inducing panic in the public. The ban ended in 1952 when the Weather Bureau issued the first Tornado Watch.