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TIL playing the "laser pointer chase game" with your dog can permanently change their brain to activate the prey instinct, causing them to constantly watch the shadows (new source)(increased anxiety, no other interests, changed personality)

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d88Ad TIL IKEA made an ASMR video to promote college dorm furniture.
pDxe TIL: The word “Anarchy” stands for “Without Rulers” instead of “Without Rules”
R7w0l TIL: Ancients measured long distances by hiring "bematists." They were trained to count steps while walking between locations and could measure hundreds of miles with 95%+ accuracy. Eratosthenes used one to calculate the circumference of the Earth within 15% in 240 B.C.E.
WlMX TIL Australian funnel web spiders are accidentally toxic given the fact the venom appears to be fairly harmless to many other animals except primates and no primates are native to Australia.
KZZB TIL two years after Paul Revere’s ride, 16-year-old Sybil Ludington undertook a similar ride to raise the local militia, but she rode twice as far as Revere. In the rain. And fought off a highwayman with a musket.