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TIL Rats laugh when you tickle them!

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Gb0g TIL that Marlboro cigarettes were originally designed for women. The iconic red stripe was intended to hide lipstick stains, thus making it appealing to women. When it failed to attract women, the company changed the filter color to a muted brown, slapped a cowboy on it and marketed it to men
6ZX7 TIL for the first 35 years of his life, Jack Nicholson didn’t know his sister was actually his mother. He didn’t find out until 9 years after her death from cancer, thanks to a TIMES Journalist.
D1ZYY TIL that some fish eggs can survive being digested by waterfowl and remain viable after being pooped out. This provides one explanation as to how fish ‘miraculously’ appear in bodies of water where they otherwise never existed.
ADmQo TIL about P.K. Mahanandia, an Indian man who travelled from India to Sweden by bicycle in 1977 to meet his wife.
JYlM1 TIL in WW2 a female feudal lord took control over 275 Nazis to force them to fix up her island after German occupation ended in Sark