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TIL that other than humans, chimpanzees and rats are the only animals that can laugh.

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9jKm TIL The USA is one of the last countries that hasn’t combined Boy and Girl Scouts.
6k8J TIL in 1775, about 70 years after the last Dodo’s death, the director of Oxford’s Natural History museum decided the museum’s stuffed Dodo was becoming too tattered and ordered it burned. A passing employee noticed and rescued a head and a limb. This is the last remainder of an actual dodo we have.
e0da4 TIL the main beat from “All Caps” by MF DOOM is a sample from the 1967 crime drama “Ironside”
LQyd TIL that in the interrogation scene of The Dark Knight, Heath Ledger wanted Christian Bale to beat him as hard as he could so he could get the real feeling of what was required from the scene.
BdWx TIL Derek Kieper, an anti-seat belt law advocate, was killed in a car wreck because he wasn’t wearing his seat belt.