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TIL petting a dog can lower your blood pressure.

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j6J4E TIL in the tiny African kingdom of Lesotho, a local style of accordion folk music known as Famo has sprung a fierce bloody gang war which has contributed to its high homicide rate. Little-known to the outside world, scores of musicians and hundreds of DJs, fans, family members etc. have been slain.
YemA TIL 13% of the world’s adults – 630 million people – say they would like to leave their country and move somewhere else permanently.
GY4Rj TIL Some frogs reproduce in complex systems involving multiple different species
XEVQ8 TIL about Donald Watts, a Florida resident police received calls about and found rolling naked in a muddy ditch. After using 2 stun guns with no effect they called for backup among which was a K9 unit who was ordered to engage Watts but Watts managed to grab the dog by the head and bit him first.
NJgE TIL of the existence of “Ring galaxies” - galaxies in which the majority of stars and gas coalesce in a donut-like shape around the center, in contrast to the typical galaxy in which stars and gas coalesce at the center itself.