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TIL that rats emit high-pitched squeaks that are considered their "laughter", which are out of the range of human hearing, in response to being tickled.

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QNk06 TIL that the son of the victim of Indian actor Salman Khan's drunk hit-and-run has stated that he still watches his movies.
N7gNb TIL of the “asshole” experiments: participants were blocked from walking down a narrow hallway by a researcher who called them an “asshole”. Southern men were far more likely to respond aggressively to the insult than Northern men who shrugged it off.
E1oPX TIL the famous quote "It's over 9000" from the Dragonball franchises was originally "It's over 8000" in both the Japanese manga and anime but was later changed in the dub version to better fit the mouth slap of the animation
Y7Vw7 TIL that when the clocks go back at the end of daylight saving time (today in some places) is the day with the fewest heart attacks since everyone has 1hr more of sleep. Correspondingly the day with the most heart attacks is when daylight saving starts in the spring
9wlPM TIL about Mark Twain’s proposed Philippines flag during U.S. territorial expansion: an altered U.S. Flag with black stripes instead of white and skull and crossbones instead of stars.