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TIL Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treats

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JxQ4 TIL the Japanese have a word (Kenjataimu 賢者タイム) which means the “period after orgasm when a man is free from sexual desire and can think clearly.”
PYD8O TIL that sour patch kids are known as "Very Bad Kids" in France.
awdVN TIL the Nazis tried to make a sun gun, or sonnengewehr. They would launch a 100-meter-wide concave mirror into space and use it to reflect sunlight onto the enemy, burning cities, boiling reservoirs and (pretty much) melting people.
VMkLG TIL that when a whale farts, the resulting bubble is so big that a full-grown horse could fit inside
6x0J TIL That Racing Club of Argentina had a curse put on their stadium by their fierce rivals by burying 7 dead cats under the pitch in 1967, and oddly enough they stopped winning. It took them 34 years to find all 7, after which they won the championship the same year the last cat was found.