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TIL Rats laugh when tickled. The laughter is high pitched and beyond the range of human hearing

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wopw6 TIL that after Hitler's death, Joseph Goebbels and his wife, poisoned their six children then took their own lives
Odx7 TIL In 2004, An NYU Student spent 8 months living in the college library due to being unable to afford tuition and room & board despite a $15000/yr scholarship and working 30 hours a week. Upon learning about this, the university gave him free accommodation through the summer.
OGvB1 TIL that the British valued the promise of freedom they made to slaves who fought for them in the Revolutionary War so much that they disobeyed the Treaty of Paris and evacuated them from New York before the Americans could re-enslave them.
5V7WD TIL There are some state-funded programs that allow people to adopt dogs that failed government training for being too friendly or for some other reasons
VMgkG TIL that the US Postal Service's unofficial motto ("Neither rain nor snow...") was first used in 440 BC by Herodotus, who was impressed by the Persian Empire's messenger system.