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TIL Babies as young as 9 months know what makes a friend,new research suggests. A study conducted in January in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, shows that babies who are too young to talk still have a set of abstract expectations about the social world.

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jrXN TIL the Soviets gave the offspring of one of their space dogs to JFK’s daughter Caroline during the Cold War in 1961, which went on to have pups with an American dog that JFK jokingly dubbed ‘pupniks’
0wKa5 TIL Zoos give female animals, such as Zebras and Chimps, birth control to prevent unplanned pregnancies. Zoos also pick and chose which males of different species are allowed to reproduce, essentially “zoo breeding” towards preferred traits for zoo life.
xJNw TIL North Korea’s literacy rate is 100%, according to the CIA
J1MN4 TIL about 'Quahog Day', when Doug the Quahog predicts how many days of sunshine Cape Cod will get over the summer
P1nYJ TIL That a Bible was published in the 17th century without "not" in the sentence "Thou shalt not commit adultery", changing the sentence into "Thou shalt commit adultery". It became know as the "Wicked Bible".