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TIL it is likely that dog’s smile because they have observed humans doing it, and we condition them to smile by giving them treats and snuggles when they look happy. They’re basically brown-nosing us.

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Mey9m TIL Nazis kidnapped “Aryan-looking” children from across Europe and brought them back to Germany for indoctrination.
QN8pM TIL after winning the revolutionary war George Washington resigned. “Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action … I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.” The next day he left for his home, Mount Vernon.
jR0p TIL that the Confederacy planned to conquer Latin America after a Southern victory in the Civil War.
WgRo TIL that Halliburton was forced to pay only $200,000 in fines following the firm’s willful destruction of incriminating evidence relating to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
oRK9A TIL the nine largest metro systems are in China and six of them are less than 20 years old