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

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e0xM4 TIL of May Bradford, a Red Cross volunteer during WWI who wrote over 25,000 letters and notes, an average of 12 a day, for wounded soldiers who were too ill or too uneducated to write to their family. She also sat with the injured and dying and considered herself to be a surrogate mother to them.
D1Vwp TIL On June 3 1989 Chinese troops opened fire on students protesting in Tienanmen Square, a place whose name translates to "The Gate of Heavenly Peace" and the news of this event is still censored by the Chinese government
46ko TIL that there were 8 African-American men from Southern states elected to Congress in 1870, just five years after the Civil War. Another black man wouldn’t be elected from a Southern state for the next 72 years.
xV067 TIL Hops come from the same genetic family as Marijuana - Cannabaceae
NXApP TIL There used to be a large, inland sea in Northern Africa called Mega Chad