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TIL Monty Python’s “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” is the most played song at funerals in the United Kingdom.

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PGKJ TIL that if asking someone a favour in their right ear, you are almost twice as likely to have them agree than if you were to ask them in the left ear.
6DRJ TIL Scientists have recently discovered repeating radio signals coming from a mysterious source well beyond the Milky Way. While one-off fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been detected in the past, this is the first time multiple signals have been detected coming from the same place in space.
VMVgD TIL that zoopharmacogneosy is the science that studies how animals self medicate in the wild by ingesting or applying specific plants or non foods such as clay and charcoal.
5eyp TIL that in the movie ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’, most of the bruises seen on Rooney Mara’s body when she takes a shower are real; the physicality of shooting the rape scene the day before resulted in countless bruises on the actresses wrists, neck and torso
o5W8 TIL social etiquette in horse herds includes standing face to ass to brush flies off each others faces.