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TIL high fives were not really a “thing” until the 1970’s

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m10rx TIL Frog saliva is a non-Newtonian fluid. The fluid is initially runny when the frog's tongue first hits its prey helping it spread along the surface of their food. After the initial pressure drops the fluid gets gooier and stickier allowing the prey to be quickly brought into the frog's mouth.
PQvO TIL the first computer mouse was made of wood
GYnaj TIL that an eyewitness to President Lincoln's assassination appeared on television in 1956 on a game show.
9wPjm TIL Einstein lived in Bern when he developed his famous equation and the city commemorates him with four bench statues, two guided city tours, Einstein Museum, Einsteinhaus, lectures, and Einstein Kaffee house
VMJj0 TIL that 17 years before Confederate General James Longstreet surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House, he stood as a groomsman in Grant's wedding. At the surrender, they embraced and reminisced about "the days that were so pleasant."