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TIL that either everybody on reddit is using the website crazyfacts.com to come up with things they learned today or the people from crazyfacts.com are using Reddit for their crazy facts. Check it out and see for yourself.

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WQV9 TIL that Hitler justified his campaign of ethnic extermination and relocation in Eastern Europe and the USSR in part on the U.S. government’s treatment of Native Americans in the 19th Century.
wPQP TIL that war dogs are always ranked higher than their handlers in order to ensure that if a handler ever mistreats his dog, it would be considered assault on a superior officer.
nWBOG TIL a Cambridge study shows that in 57 countries women on average display more empathy than men. In no countries studied did men have greater empathy
ADPZn TIL Elephants are known to take a great interest in the bones of their deceased and to mourn for dead relatives and Magpies have been observed burying their dead under twigs of grass
xVNBg TIL that Killifish eggs can survive a trip through a bird's digestive system, spreading the fish to other places when the birds poop them out.