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TIL A French painter was highly acclaimed by art critics but something they didn’t know was he was a chimpanzee

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D1XYp Today I learned that a lot of reptiles, amphibians and some fish have a third eye. The Parietal eye is located on the top of their head and acts as a photocell sensor to detect light levels.
WK88 TIL: Bruce Alexander, an experimental psychologist, studied addiction in lab rats, and created Rat Park – A Rat Utopian World in which rats almost always refused drugs (morphine), while rats in solitary confinement overdosed on a regular basis…
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