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TIL dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand pointing

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dD8g7 TIL that goldfish are more closely related to humans than to sharks
v1rrL TIL that Indian surgeons were performing successful rhinoplasties as early as 600 BC. They'd slice an upside-down nose shape from your forehead skin, twist it around, and insert hollow bamboo sticks for you to breathe through.
6Evp7 TIL that mutton was a common dish in America until WW2, and its decline came after GIs, having been fed with canned mutton on the front, returned home and never wanted to see mutton again.
Eo6P TIL that it wasn’t until he was 37 when Jack Nicholson found out that his supposed “sister”, June, was actually his mother
ANDW7 TIL the Irish government developed a plan for an invasion and occupation of Northern Ireland in 1970, during the Troubles.