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TIL rats are capable of metacognition (the ability to think about one’s thoughts).

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0dPpL TIL about British politician Tony Benn met his future spouse in Oxford in 1949. Nine days later, he proposed marriage to her on a park bench. Subsequently, he purchased the bench from Oxford City Council and installed it in the garden of their home. The couple remained together for 51 years.
l7oaV TIL that only about 20% of people like the smell and taste of truffles. They cost a fortune and most of us don’t even like them.
d8rwQ TIL: Native Americans created a universal sign language that allowed 2/3 of all Indigenous tribes to communicate across most of North America, hundreds of years before Europeans invented a sign language of their own.
vAWr TIL The maternity ward of Dutch princess Juliana (sheltered in Canada during WW2) was declared international territory so that the child would be born in no country and inherit Dutch citizenship. In gratitude, she sent 100,000 tulips paving the way for the Canadian Tulip Festival.
xw57 TIL That Texas has outlawed the purchase of common laboratory glassware without a permit in an anti-drug production effort