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TIL that animals experience time differently than us based on their CFF (critical flicker fusion frequency). For example Dogs experience time about 33% slower than people

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5YWAp TIL about Indian Head Rock...an 8-ton boulder that was taken from a river between Ohio & Kentucky that led to a legal fight between the two states.
ZmKD TIL that Jehovah’s Witnesses have the lowest retention rate of any religious tradition in the United States. Only 37% of those who were raised in the faith claim membership as adults. They also have nearly the lowest average income and level of educational attainment.
oN18 TIL there’s a mutual fund that has never changed the stocks it holds in over 75 years. Had you invested $10,000 in the Corporate Leaders Trust in 1935, it would be worth over $20,000,000 today. The fund has also outperformed the S&P 500 and Warren Buffett’s Berkshire-Hathaway in the past decade.
W7Z7X TIL in 2008 and 2015, unmarked mass graves of were discovered in Michigan. They were from Northwest Orient 2501, a plane that vanished over Lake Michigan. Some debris was found, but the wreckage was never recovered. Some body parts were recovered and then buried in these graves.
e0K7g TIL that in 1967, the Nigerian Civil War ground to a halt for two days because both sides wanted to watch soccer player Pele in an exhibition match.