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TIL that apart from humans, dogs are the only other known species that can understand finger pointing. Not even chimpanzees could manage it in one study.

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jNkXp TIL about Thought-Terminating Clichés - a type of logical fallacy that employs the loaded language of a well known phrase or saying that offers seemingly simple solutions to complex questions for the sole purpose of shutting down further debate by diminishing critical thinking.
ne6rW TIL that 2,400-year old ruins where found on the northern coast of Greenland, more than 300 miles north of the current northernmost town in the world.
wrwW TIL: There are an estimated 70 sextillion stars in the known universe (70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)
PYLKe TIL the fingerprints of a koala are so indistinguishable from humans that they have on occasion been confused at a crime scene.
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