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TIL dolphins don’t just leave their dead behind. Mothers have been seen carrying their lifeless calves for days, even as they decompose, showing a terrible sense of loss.

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VAvk TIL the Australian skink (a lizard species) lays eggs in some regions and gives live birth in others, thus illustrating evolution in real time
Mb6W TIL There’s a Russian superstition that if there’s a fly in the room, you shouldn’t say anything that’s secret because flys are all spys for Baba Yaga (the witch that lives in the woods). Its an old pagan superstition from before the communist revolution.
QNGpp TIL A young man pinched his nose and clamped his mouth shut to hold in a forceful sneeze and ended up barely able to speak or swallow, with considerable pain. Air bubbles reached into the deep tissue and muscles of his chest and it took seven days for him to recover in hospital
5ZNB TIL that the village Sasha Baron Cohen filmed in for the start of the movie “Borat” wasn’t in on the joke. Most villagers didn’t speak English and were shocked to find out what he was saying in the movie. The village isn’t even in Kazakhstan - it’s in Romania. - [4:14]
KO8rw TIL that ducklings have abstract thoughts. Within hours of hatching, these baby birds can learn concepts like “same” or “different” — and they do so faster than human infants