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TIL Clinically, what is often seen as "relaxation" in a scruffed [grabbing the animal by the loose skin at the back of the neck] adult cat is actually behavioral shutdown, or learned helplessness that occurs when an animal experiences a very high level of fear and stress.

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7rpJr TIL that Doc Pomus, who wrote the lyrics to "Save the Last Dance for Me," had polio and was confined to a wheelchair. He wrote the song after his wedding, where he watched his new wife dance with everyone but him.
Wk4AN TIL Alex Haley, author of Roots and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, conducted the first Playboy interview. He later interviewed some of the most prominent figures of the 1960s for the magazine including MLK and George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party.
nemrG Climate change has not been kind to Antarctica. According to a comprehensive new study, global warming has already bled the frigid continent, which is larger than Europe, of about 2.7 trillion tons of ice. This enormous amount of ice has already raised global sea levels by as much as a centimeter.
xOJw TIL that in 2014 Toshiba has repurposed its floppy disk factory, that hasn’t been used for nearly two decades into a vegetable farm
WkoE9 TIL At a prison facility in Nuuk, Greenland some inmates reportedly hold the keys to their own cells (to afford them privacy), and others may leave the premises during the day to go to work or school. Perhaps surprisingly, inmates are even allowed to go hunting with rifles to shoot birds and seals.