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TIL dogs are prosocial, meaning that they volunteer to help or share with others, even when there might not directly be any benefit to themselves.

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b96gj TIL that when echidnas mate the males form long, waddling processions called “love trains" behind a single female.
4kDVb TIL about the Ponzo Illusion, which is is a visual phenomenon where two identical lines appear different in length due to converging background lines, creating a sense of perspective and depth distortion
awYeA TIL that Diogenes "the Cynic" of Sinope, a controversial Greek philosopher, responded to Zeno's paradoxes on the impossibility of physical motion by getting up and walking away.
woKn1 TIL only 10% of men in the world are 6ft +. Even in the US only 15% are above it.
v111j TIL the Danish Language is so difficult to learn, that Danish children take longer to learn to speak than children from other countries.