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TIL: Brain scans show that dogs are as conscious as human children

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GgPN TIL in the 1980s, Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel was spending $2,500 a month on rubber bands just to hold all their cash.
NDo1 TIL that a Filipino Senator once spoke for 18 straight hours to stall for time while waiting for a member of his party to arrive to cast the deciding vote on the control of the Senate. After the outspoken Senator was done, the arriving senator voted against his own party.
rxV4 TIL a former millionaire has lived mostly alone on an island nearly 30 years - since the stock market crash of 1987
ngmd TIL in 2012, a man sacrificed his kidney in order to save his younger sister but his efforts ended in vain when a nurse mistakenly disposed the donated organ. Despite the success of the kidney transplant 3 months later, the family sued the hospital for their negligence.
9wJa6 TIL a 12 year old boy was killed in north Carolina from a world war II era grenade two days before Christmas in 2020