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TIL studies suggest that people who swear often, stay up late, and are messy, tend to have high IQ’s

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Yp9Lr TIL that dogs are the only non-primate species with a left-gaze bias. Humans tend to look at the right side of a human face for better facial recognition and dogs respond to faces in a similar way: Dogs also fixate on the right side of a human face, but not that of other animals.
eyeL TIL that German children are taught the dangers of misbehavior through traumatic stories. These include a child having his thumbs cut off for thumbsucking and a girl who burns to death for playing with matches