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TIL that at the North Pole it is whatever time you say it is.

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OGAXR TIL about the Rat Park experiment, where rats in isolation preferred drug-laced water and often overdosed, but in a stimulating environment with other rats, they chose plain water over the drugs
W7vxA TIL that researchers raised a lung-bearing fish called the bichir entirely on land in order to study how its behavior and anatomy adapts, hoping to better understand the steps which led to the evolution of tetrapods
wKaY TIL there is a large area of space that is devoid of any galaxies that has been theorized by cosmologist Laura Mersini-Houghton, to be the imprint of a parallel universe.
Y6kZ TIL That Beck wrote and composed all of the songs on his Grammy Award Winning Album of the Year ‘Morning Phase’ whilst also playing over 15 instruments and singling vocals.
M70lW TIL the submarine, the USS Tullibee, sunk itself after a torpedo it fired ran a circular course back around. The only survivor, Clifford Kuykendall, was thrown from the bridge into the water, when he awoke the Tullibee was gone and he reported hearing voices in the water for 10 minutes, then silence