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TIL that rats laugh by "chirping" when playing and when tickled by humans. Rats that laugh the most also play the most and prefer to spend more time with other laughing rats.

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4XJ5a TIL that when the first white man came back to describe Yellow Stone and consequentially its geothermal features, his report was considered fictional. The same also happened for the second non-native.
gvP9 TIL In the United States, fake abortion “clinics” set up by religious organizations outnumber real abortion clinics by about 2/1.
XEJE TIL the reason why you occasionally can receive radio stations from cities far outside their normal broadcast range. A phenomenon called Tropospheric Ducting acts like a lens, bending the radio waves and greatly extending the normal reception range.
7814p TIL- Pocahontas had one son with her second husband John Rolfe. That son, had one daughter named Jane Rolfe. In 1887, a book was published that found that Pocahontas had thousands of descendants. That number has more recently been updated to reveal over 30,000 named descendants.
4QRb TIL skin can turn orange from eating too many carrots