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TIL in Finland some children read to dogs and cows because they actually like listening and are extremely attentive.

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ewd6 TIL Viking swords were 1,000 years ahead of their time.
WoAB TIL Egypt isn’t the country with the most pyramids. It’s Sudan and they have approximatively 255 pyramids !
6dB8 TIL that an average person’s yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.
paE4 TIL the world’s largest parrot, the Kakapo, is the world’s only flightless parrot. It is nocturnal, herbivorous, and is one of the world’s longest-living birds with an average lifespan of 95 years. It is critically endangered. As of 2012, there were only 126 living individuals known.
d8xj7 TIL a rodent that was believed to have been extinct for 113 years suddenly showed up right in front of researchers, staying long enough for its picture to be taken, before it disappeared back into the Colombian forest, having never been seen again.