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TIL dogs know when you smile at them

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jAYM TIL that high-fiber diets work to lower your cholesterol in a roundabout way: by interfering with bile absorption in the intestines. Because the bile can’t get absorbed as well, the bile gets flushed out with your poop, and so the body makes more bile salts, using cholesterol as fuel.
M95K TIL that in the film adaptation of Lord of the Rings:The two towers , the horse that saves Aragorn when he falls off the cliff is the same horse that Aragorn sets free after saying “has seen enough of war”. Also Viggo Mortensen purchased the horse after the movie
og08 TIL there is a Gameboy that survived a barracks bombing during the Gulf War. It stills works to this day.
PYvVO TIL that Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield have two species of spiders named after them - Filistata maguirei and Pritha garfieldi.
4k176 TIL that the Bible contains a second list of laws also referred to as the Ten Commandments. Scholars call it the “Ritual Decalogue” and it includes a law saying that you shouldn’t boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.