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AJQo TIL that Dogs are wired to understand human emotions and react accordingly
egab TIL that after Boromir had a dream urging him to seek Rivendell to the north, it took him a hundred and ten days to arrive, just barely making it in time for Elrond’s council. Tolkien wrote that the “courage and hardihood required was not fully recognized by the narrative”.
4kXJJ TIL the closest relatives of cetaceans (whales) are hippopotamuses
X0Lx6 TIL that Muammar Gaddafi submitted a proposal to the UN that Switzerland be abolished as a state and merged into Italy, Germany, and France
dEBj TIL that moon landing conspiracy theories were proven wrong in 2011 when a nasa probe revealed high-resolution photos of the apollo moon landing sites.