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TIL "Cute aggression" or the urge to squeeze cute animals or babies is the brain’s coping mechanism to temper the onslaught of positive feelings. Because if you find yourself incapacitated by how cute a baby is—so much so that you simply can't take care of it—that baby is going to starve.

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N7B61 TIL that two men in Brazil stole a teletherapy unit from an abandoned hospital and disassembled it in home. The two suffered vomiting, diarrhea, dizziness and unexplained skin burns. They sold the unit in junkyard and later found that it contains a radioactive material, exposing 249 others.
69ANl TIL a graffiti artist in Philadelphia once tagged his name on an actual elephant at the zoo
jNQyQ TIL that Indian actor and comedian Brahmanandam has appeared in more than 1000 films since 1986
ZPmB TIL if you laid all the molecules in a teaspoon of water end to end, it would stretch 10 times the width of the solar system
jN8aa TIL that whenever WWE wrestler Ric Flair wore red, it meant he was going to lose that match.