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TIL dogs percieve humans differently from themselves, but cats do not. Cats treat humans like they would treat another cat.

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yBLa TIL that there is in fact gravity at the international space station. So much so that someone that weighs 100 lbs on earth would weigh 90 on the station. The reason they float isn’t due to a lack of gravity, but rather because the astronauts are in a perpetual free fall.
GYbLQ TIL that Candy Land was created due to the polio epidemic. Eleanor Abbott, a victim of the disease, created it for children to play while they were recuperating.
yQ4v TIL that Thomas Jefferson once said about democracy: “…nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
WM8X TIL Sebastian Bach was fired from Skid Row because he wanted to open for KISS and the band refused. After he was canned he left the band a voicemail saying that nobody is ever too big to open for KISS.
RDQQ TIL CNN International refused to show a documentary on Bahrain’s human rights violations because they are paid by the Bahrain Regime to show the country in a good light