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TIL that laughter is a universal language! A study found that even babies as young as six months can recognize different types of laughter.

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LQOdP TIL Dark Matter is only one possible explanation to the problem of why observations of galactic rotation do not match up with mathematical models. Modified Newtonian Dynamics is another explanation that solves some of the problems Dark Matter cannot explain. Neither explanation is perfect though.
nRdB TIL at a ‘The Who’ concert in 1969, a man rushed the stage and tried to take the microphone. Roger Daltrey punched him in the face, and Pete Townshend kicked him in the crotch. The man was actually a plain-clothes policeman trying to warn of a large fire next door. Townshend was later arrested
Oovvg TIL Chen Si, a Chinese man, has spent every weekend of the past 13 years patrolling the most notorious suicide spot in China, helping prevent suicides. He has saved well over 300 people.
AN7Bd Today I learned that the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, were second cousins. So they needed a papal dispensation for their marriage.
9YPrp TIL that natural history museums use teams of beetles to clean the flesh off specimens.