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TIL that if sugar gliders are deprived of social interaction, they can become so sad that they can die

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OG6l4 TIL that koi fish were domesticated from carp fish in fourth century BCE China.
epwrE TIL about Thomas Salme, a Swedish airplane mechanic with no flying experience, using fake credentials flew 13 years for several international airlines with his only source of training being an early version of Flight Simulator.
O8yL TIL that actor Keanu Reeves gave up most of his Matrix money ($35 million dollars) to the special effects team, turning them all into millionaires.
lkjG TIL dolphin communication follows a linguistic rule that unites human languages, called Zipf’s law. The law states that the frequency of a language’s common words follow a trend — the most common word in a language appears twice as often as the second most common word.
KemJ TIL of Richard Jewell-A security guard who, initially hailed by the media as a hero, was later considered a suspect in the 1996 Olympic Games bombing in Atlanta. Despite never being charged, he underwent a “trial by media” with great toll on his personal and professional life