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TIL that horses don't smile, it's their "Flehmen Response"

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wPbY TIL Nixon deployed 25,000 soldiers to NYC in 1970 to deliver mail after carriers went on strike.
b9e70 TIL Dr. George Archibald spent 3 years with a highly endangered whooping crane named Tex, acting as a male crane – walking, calling, dancing – to shift her into reproductive condition. Through his dedication and the use of artificial insemination, Tex eventually laid a fertile egg.
Mep70 TIL that flour distributors used to make their sacks more colorful during the Great Depression to help the people who often made clothes out of them remain at least somewhat fashionable.
dlWQ TIL that a doctor once attempted to prove that the human soul had weight by placing dying patients on a giant scale at the moment of death.
b9A09 TIL seahorse couples greet each other every morning with a dance, which sometimes involves changing colour. It is a way of reinforcing their bond and synchronising their reproductive cycles.