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TIL about HeroRATS, southern giant pouched rats that are trained to detect and indicate landmine locations. They are trained by non-profit APOPO. They also have rats who are trained to detect tuberculosis.

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E11MX TIL that human fingers/toes getting wrinkly when in the bath/swimming is a actually NOT caused by water soaking into the skin. This effect does not happen if there is nerve damage in the finger, which means it is actually an involuntary autonomic nervous system response causing wrinkly fingers.
KLPE TIL that in 2009, a twitter poll for Miley Cyrus’ biggest fan was being won by Pedobear until he was removed from the contest.
jNnJM TIL of the sunk cost fallacy. It is the general tendency for people to continue an endeavor, or continue consuming or pursuing an option, if they’ve invested time or money or some resource in it, which becomes a fallacy if it’s pushing you to do things that are making you unhappy or worse off.
lYjA TIL that a woman’s breasts can grow up to 25% larger when she’s aroused.
YpXVG TIL that dogs likely dream about their owners when they sleep at night