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TIL When humans and dogs gaze into each other’s eyes both of their brains can excrete oxytocin, the only observed case between two different species

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yV5kv TIL about tree wells - a void or area of loose snow below trees. In 2 experiments conducted in North America, 90% of volunteers temporarily placed in tree wells were unable to rescue themselves.
oRy18 TIL that all of the original "Mercury Seven" astronauts were the eldest or only sons of their family. All were raised in small towns & all were married w/ children. All were (white) protestants, and four were their fathers' namesakes. All had attended post-secondary institutions in the 1940s.
jNxna TIL: To become an astronaut in Japan you are tested in your ability to fold a thousand paper cranes.
Ewyd TIL that during the filming of Caligula, in Rome, Malcolm McDowell took the entire production crew out to dinner to celebrate an English football win against Italy. At the end of the lavish meal, he claimed to not have enough money, and stuck the film’s choreographer with the bill.
grrLX TIl - There's no evidence that the word hoser was ever actually used by Canadians before appearing on SCTV's "Bob and Doug McKenzie" sketches