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TIL of Puppy Pregnancy Syndrome, where people even think they are pregnant with puppies after being bitten by a dog. Victims are said to bark like dogs and men think they will give birth to their puppies through the penis.

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1ajbD TIL that there's a rare turtle in Australia that was discovered in 1990, when Steve Irwin found it in a crocodile catching trip. It was named after him.
v9NK TIL there is a thought experiment from Plutarch (AD 46 – AD 120) called The ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus’s paradox, that raises the question of whether an object that has had all of its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object.
4kpyg TIL Until 1980, users of chess computers had to move the computer’s pieces by hand. The 1982 Novag Robot Adversary used a robotic arm to move pieces but only 2500 units were produced due to high failure rates
b6Rdj TIL when Freud developed the concepts of the id, ego, and superego in psychology, the original German words he used literally meant "The it, I, and over-I". Id, ego, and superego were the words chosen by English translators
d8paZ TIL that Earth And Venus Form a Stunning Pentagrammic Pattern in Space