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TIL Dolphins give eachother names and even respond to them.

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ZyKB TIL rubbing your dog’s ear sends nerve impulses to pituitary glands that secrete endorphins, pain-killing, feel-good types of hormones that make your dog so relaxed throughout his/her whole body that he/she becomes essentially “high” off of his/her own hormones.
4WLo TIL someone wrote a smartphone app called “Nickelblock” that plays Nickelback every time you try to look at your Ex’s profile on Facebook.
BrmMr TIL that we are we living in an ice age that started approximately 3 million years ago.
6ENWX TIL Socrates was very worried that the increasing use of books in education would have the effect of ruining students' ability to memorise things. We only remember this now because Plato wrote it down.
p8DNG TIL There were only two groups in Sparta that could have their names inscribed in their tombstones: mothers who died giving life and soldiers who fell in battle.