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TIL rescue dogs searching the ruins of 9/11 found too few survivors that it caused them depression because they felt they had failed. The rescue workers pretended and hide themselves in the rubble in order to give the dogs successful finds and keep them motivated.

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6Emel TIL that Argentina had the world's highest GDP per capita in the 1890's and was in the top fifteen wealthiest economies till the 1950's
6E5NY TIL In 1982, a lady by the name of Deborah Mathers sued Dort Elementary School because her 9-year-old son Marshall was bullied and beaten so severely that he suffered several injuries, including a cerebral concussion, repetitive loss of vision and hearing, and other such ailments.
rRkO0 TIL that the Fabii, one of ancient Rome's most prestigious families, was nearly wiped out in one battle where 306 male members of the family died. The sole survivor of the family had been too young to go to war.
KL4E TIL Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water’s surface. Pressing down on the surface of the water permits drowning people to leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of the water to breathe.
PvyG Today I learned about the Mobile Bay Jubilee, a recurring natural phenomenon found in only one spot on the whole world. Roughly once a year, thousands of crab, shrimp, eels and fish will leave deeper waters to swarm onto the shallower coastal waters, due to oxygen suffocation