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TIL Every time a dog sees it’s owner, its brain secretes those same chemicals as our brains when we are in love.

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W71WL TIL Human skeletons today are much lighter and more fragile than those of our ancient ancestors. Research suggests that this is a result of modern humans’ sedentary lifestyle
WRwN TIL That the word “Idaho” is completely meaningless. The lobbyist who suggested the name lied about it being a Shoshone word for “gem of the mountains” and congress didn’t bother verifying the claim.
JRYv TIL that the Vatican still blamed the Jews for the death of Jesus until 1965.
EbDo TIL The Malaysian pen-tailed tree shrew subsists on a diet roughly equivalent to 100% beer, drinking the fermented nectar of the flower buds of the bertam plant. This nectar can reach up to 3.8% alcohol content. Despite this, they don’t appear to get drunk.
dlmr TIL a Redditor and former heroin addict named Tracey Helton has saved the lives of over 110 Redditors by mailing out an opiate overdose antidote named naloxone