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TIL it has been scientifically proven that praise rather than criticism is the best way to help employees improve

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6N1w TIL Amazon river dolphins have been observed to insert their penises into others’ blowholes, which makes this the only known example of “nasal sex”.
neb8G TIL: Male praying mantises can still continue mating even after being decapitated by the female
yMEp TIL that a pilot was recorded saying “I picked a bad day to stop sniffin’ glue” shortly before his plane crashed on Dec. 8th 2005.
EgdYx TIL that "death masks" (casts made of a person's face after they died) were worn by actors and paid mourners at the person's own funeral. At one funeral, 6000 people were wearing the dead person's face mask.
BY7D TIL that life in Puritan New England was so hard that children who were abducted by Native Americans often refused to come back