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TIL Petting a dog an decrease stress and anxiety, among other health benefits for both the human and the dog.

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Me1N0 TIL Rabbits can smell their dead relatives in the feces of predators.
WX1A TIL people who constantly bite the skin around their fingernails or on the inside of their cheeks suffer from dermatophagia, an impulse control disorder linked to anxiety and obsession
WkJnB TIL because electronic computers were not fast in 1959, the X15 experimental jet used a Fluidic Digital Computer that used water instead of electricity. It featured hypersensitive Fluidic Integrated Circuits and Logic Gates that could make course corrections faster than its contemporary computers.
5vo8 TIL that people will judge pictures of faces as more attractive if their own faces have partially been morphed into the picture. If too much (>22%) is morphed in, the attractiveness-ratings plumit: An evolutionary mechanism to ensure avoiding inbreeding, researchers say
Xbxk TIL That NASA is working on a warp drive that could get us to Alpha Centauri in 2 weeks.