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

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VM1wD TIL of early French socialist Charles Fourier (1772-1837) who believed in the future, under his system people would grow tails and live 144 years, as well as there being "anti-lions", which would be friendly and pacifistic.
D8Mp TIL that the loneliest man in the world is the sole survivor of his tribe and lives completely alone in the Amazon forest.
loDwA TIL France performed guillotine executions as recently as 1977
4blw TIL that mice sing just like birds, but we can’t hear them
pYBmp TIL that the homeownership rate is the proportion of households occupied by the owner divided by the total number of occupied households, so it does not actually reflect the % of human beings that rent - say you have 5 room mates. You only count as 1 "renter", the way the data usually presented