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TIL according to a Kyoto University team, dogs can recognize a bad person & negatively evaluate people who refuse to help their owners.

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4Xdlg TIL that Fred from Scooby Doo has been voiced by the same man for fifty years
9ZQM TIL that president George H.W. Bush was once given a 9-foot Komodo dragon as a gift from the Indonesian government. Its name was “Naga”, and it was the largest Komodo dragon in the western hemisphere. He donated it to the Cincinnati Zoo.
5roB TIL: The “Fi” in “Wi-Fi” doesn’t stand for anything, it’s a play on words of “Hi-Fi”
5VoJn TIL that during the Maxi Trial, the largest trial against the Mafia in history, a mobster confessed to Tommaso Buscetta, an informant, that he had killed two of Buscetta's sons. After the trial, Buscetta embraced him and said: "I forgive you because I know what it means to be in Cosa Nostra"
JYxlB TIL that the hermaphroditic animal known as a sea squirt begins its life as a tadpole like creature, until it settles down anus-up in a location for the rest of its life. It will then eat its own brain, disintegrate its nervous system, and fire sperm and eggs into the water to reproduce.