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TIL Dogs can have depression

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GaE5 TIL in the 1960s, the CIA spent over $20 million dollars implanting radio equipment into a cat to spy on the Kremlin. After being released outside the Soviet compound in Washington DC for it’s first mission, it was immediately struck by a taxi and died.
E1JpP TIL that the West African lungfish can survive up to 3.5 years without food or water. It has been around for 400 million years & their gills have evolved to obtain oxygen from the air as well as water. During estivation they get nutrients by digests its muscle tissue & can go on for years!
XEpZ6 TIL: Bats compete with one another for food by jamming each other's sonar signals that they use to hunt insects.
6EaP7 TIL Garlic was called Russian penicillin during World War II because, after running out of antibiotics, the Russian government turned to this ancient treatment for its soldiers.
R7W77 TIL NASA pioneered research for Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)/Orthostatic Intolerance (OI) and developed therapeutic exercise programs for them for astronauts returning from space.