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TIL of Cribbing, It involves the horse grabbing a solid object with its incisors, then arching its neck, pulling against the object, and sucking in air. This releases endorphins in the horse’s brain getting it high. It is also very addictive.

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WP48 TIL that those tiny bright moving lines that appear in your field of vision when looking at a clear blue sky are actually your own white blood cells moving in the capillaries in front of your eyes’ retinas.
Xka8 TIL that when he was thirty years old, Mark Twain wrote an illustrated children’s book called “Advice to Little Girls”. Lost and unknown for generations, it has been rediscovered. It is a charming and irreverent little book.
0wPdj TIL of Pomato, a grafted plant that is part tomato and part potato. The resulting plant have cherry tomatoes on the vine and white potatoes in the soil, resulting in plants with double crops. Grafting can also boost natural resilience and improve biodiversity by supporting different pollinators!
R7EKj TIL that up until the mid twentieth century in China, coins produced during the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127CE) were unofficially used as currency.
m1nQO TIL in 2018 a helicopter for sightseers of NYC crashed into the East River. All 5 passengers drowned because they were trapped by their supplemental harnesses, but the pilot escaped