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Short answer: Not as much as humans do

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6EEyZ TIL Hitler and Himmler believed Atlantis was the homeland of the Aryan race... and spent resources trying to find it
Qnwe TIL “There are approximately 850 million visits each year to American museums, more than the attendance for all major league sporting events and theme parks combined (483 million in 2011)
X079D TIL so many Royal English babies died that when Alfred of Great Britain died at age 1 in 1780 there was a policy against mourning the deaths of Royal children under age seven.
gMDAW TIL Commercial bread contains an ingredient derived from human hair: l-cysteine
oBV08 til paraffin wax was a common waterproofing method for circus tents but changed in 1944 after the Ringling Bros. Fire in Hartford, CT. The paraffin wax ended up accelerating the deadly fire & 1800lbs of hot wax "rained down from the roof"-killing 167 people; injuring 700, mostly women & children.