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TIL that animal owners experience similar grief/loss emotions when they lose a pet as they do when they lose a human.

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GAWG1 TIL that congress has known since 1975 that government intelligence agencies have been involved in the violation of minority civil rights.
PYggg TIL Pornhub has a branch of their network called “Pornhub Cares” where they focus on humanitarian efforts. Some of their causes are breast and testicular cancer research, planting trees, and funding student college scholarships.
5YVVk TIL a nationwide study conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey in 1999 and 2000 found low levels of pharmaceuticals—including antibiotics, hormones, contraceptives and steroids—in 80 percent of the rivers and streams sampled.
R7LG8 TIL that the popular cautionary narrative of the native people of Rapa Nui (aka Easter Island) causing the social and ecological collapse of their island is false, and that the collapse happened AFTER European contact through the spread of disease and the kidnapping of islanders for slavery.
16gOW TIL Orson Welles wore a fake nose in most of his films because he felt his nose was too small. Welles sometimes fashioned and applied his own prosthetic and according to some had a personal display of his noses.