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TIL Dogs can get PTSD and it affects 5-10% of working military dogs

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oRew7 TIL a skeuomorph is a design that uses an older, familiar design in something new, like the floppy disc “save” icon or candle-shaped lightbulbs
kOxE4 TIL in 1953 four editors from the Harvard Crimson newspaper stole a birdsh*t covered ibis statue from their rival- the Harvard Lampoon. The editors talked their way into a meeting with the Soviet Ambassador, and gifted the ibis to the USSR as ‘symbol of the universality of the search for truth'
D16vv TIL that the hexagonally shaped mirror segments of the James Webb telescope can each move 1/10,000th the diameter of a human hair in order to accurately focus on deep space.
KYQoR TIL that a study on 'strategic ejaculation' found that heterosexual men ejaculate more quickly and produced higher quality ejaculates (volume & total number of motile sperm) when masturbating to unfamiliar women.
KYMaG TIL: Douglas MacArthur wanted to use atomic bombs to contain China and ultimately win the Korean War.