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TIL dogs can "laugh" when they're playful. Researchers played recordings of dogs laughing to stressed shelter dogs, resulting in the dogs showing significantly fewer signs of stress. Many of the dogs and puppies began to bounce around, and responded with laughs of their own.

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Ooxj1 TIL Kirkpatrick MacMillan, who invented the bicycle (disputed) also has the first recorded instance of a bicycle traffic offense, when he knocked over a pedestrian in Glasgow and was fined 5 shillings.
nr4b TIL that the 1935 nobel peace prize was awarded to a German whistleblower who revealed their cladestine re-armament. In 1992 a German court upheld his conviction for treason & espionage
xWWk TIL the family of the late Paul Newman was forced off the board of the Newman’s Own charitable food company by Robert Forrester, who has since raised his own salary as CEO by 50%
x6VRD TIL Abe Lincoln is known in many Indigenous communities as the murderer of the Lakota 38, the largest mass execution in US history.
m1xWE TIL that from 1860 to 1870 winners of The (British) Open received the Challenge Belt. The Belt was red leather with a large silver buckle, with silver panels of golfing scenes and medallions denoting the winners and their scores. It was replaced by the Claret Jug in 1872.