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TIL the ridges on the roof of a dog's mouth help them to lap up water

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8eAK4 TIL about raspy crickets who produce silk and are unrelated to silkworms
v1mrr TIL eight grizzly bear/polar bear hybrids have been confirmed in the wild, all descending from the same female polar bear.
x6QV1 TIL about Terror Management Theory (TMT), developed by Greenberg, Solomon, and Pyszczynski, which explores how awareness of mortality creates deep psychological anxiety, managed through escapism and cultural worldviews that give life enduring meaning
rddo TIL that during WWII storks migrating from Holland to South Africa were found with messages taped to their legs that read, “Help us! The Nazis are killing us all!”
xV87g TIL The Octavia was an effects pedal designed for Jimi Hendrix by his sound technician, Roger Mayer. It reproduces the input signal from a guitar one octave higher and/or lower in pitch, and mixes it with the original and added distortion fuzz. It can be heard in guitar solos on the song Purple Haze