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TIL Male puppies purposely let female puppies win while playing

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OoeMY TIL that schizophrenic voices are shaped by local culture. Patients in America hear voices asking them to do violent things whereas in Africa and India the voices they hear are usually of dead relatives or nice voices offering comfort
8eblL TIL In Thomas Jefferson's first draft of the Declaration of Independence where he criticized George III on slavery trade, he referred to black slaves as "MEN" (capitalized).
ADEVl TIL: Tibetan Monks spend weeks/months carefully "pouring" colored sand to make a very detailed and complex museum-worthy artwork that is known as the "Sand Mandala". Once complete, these intricate paintings are then ritualistically destroyed and that symbolizes the Buddhist belief of impermanence.
d8dVr TIL, Abraham Lincoln regularly hid important documents and letters under his hat.
PYEVn TIL New York City is actually rainier than London