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TIL dogs laugh, and the sound of dog laughter can help calm anxiety at dog shelters.

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1Wd7 TIL that US interrogators tortured an Afghan detainee to death by hanging him by his arms for 4 days and beating his legs so badly they needed amputation. They did this despite most interrogators believing him to be “an innocent man who simply drove his taxi past the American base at the wrong time”
Mrga TIL Leonarda Cianciulli killed 3 women and turned their body fat into soap giving it to her neighbours and used their blood as an ingredient for cakes which were eaten by her friends, her son and herself.
ADDYn TIL an an American Indian woman left behind during an evacuation in 1835 lived alone on a remote island off the coast of California for 18 years, inspiring the children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."
QNZ9M TIL the Gaesatae were a group of Gallic mercenary warriors who went into battle naked, both because of their great confidence and their desire not to get their clothes caught in the brambles. The sight of naked warriors was also intended to intimidate the enemy.
0nGA TIL that Hebrew’s return to regular usage is unique in that there are no other examples of a “dead” language subsequently acquiring several million native speakers, and no other examples of a sacred language becoming a national language with millions of “first language” speakers.