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TIL instead of Valentine's Day, Romanians celebrate "Dragobete" on February 24th. It's a celebration of spring and love, on the day when birds (supposedly) start nests.

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woVK8 TIL that during the carnian age (232 million years ago) it rained for 1-2 million years straight almost everywhere according to scientists
yD1X TIL “Recovery from anesthesia is not simply the result of the anesthetic ‘wearing off,’ but also of the brain finding its way back through a maze of possible activity states to those that allow conscious experience,” one researcher said. “Put simply, the brain reboots itself.”
45LR TIL 75% of the annual $700 million budget of the FDA is funded by pharmaceutical companies due to the “Prescription drug user fee act”.
epAlL TIL that commercial fishing used to deliberately surround, trap and drown dolphins that would get in the way of the tuna which led to a government act to protect and label tuna caught without harming dolphins as “dolphin safe” tuna.
BrgMx TIL that most if not all of captive rhesus monkeys carry the herpes B virus, making them especially unsuitable as pets.