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TIL that when a baby giggles to ‘peekaboo’ the infant has developed knowledge that objects and people continue to exist even if they are not currently visible.

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N7x9M TIL that when Danes living under Prussian rule was banned from flying the Danish flag, they bred a special red pig, with white stripes resembling Dannebrog, as a protest.
R7p0w TIL Color Blind people can see the differences in texture and brightness more intensely than normal people and were even used in WWII to spot camouflage.
grEXA TIL 1 in 5 CEOs have psychopathic tendencies
oRmmY TIL when you flipped a cigarette in a pack and called it was called a lucky from WWII, it was smoked last because you were lucky enough to make it through that day.
pYx4O TIL about German sub U-215 which sunk in 1942 off the coast of New England and south of Nova Scotia, in Canadian territorial waters. Four of her five hatches are still sealed with the remains of 49 German sailors entombed within.