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TIL you shouldn't let dogs chase laser pointers. Unlike cats, dogs thrive on closure, and chasing laser pointers never provide any, which is frustrating for your dog and messes with their head. Doing so can lead to behavioral disorders for your dog.

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PYP5L TIL Carl Linnaeus' corpse is the model specimen for the human race. In 1959, taxonomist William T. Stearn officially made Linne, the founder of his discipline, the ICZN lectotype for homo sapiens, and his skeletal remains are now the benchmark for what a modern human is and looks like.
xXK7 TIL on December 1, 1948, a dead man bearing no identification was found on an Australian beach. Well dressed in clothes with deliberately torn-out labels, in excellent physical condition, and having left behind a rare book containing a bizarre code, the man remains unidentified to this day.
vKrK TIL Researchers placed a human language-gene FoxP2 into mice – finding their vocalization to change, and their speech-related brain regions to increase plasticity and branching
OGJRR TIL that mankind has built a space craft that will come within 3.83 million miles of the Sun in December of 2024.
nKMb TIL the KGB tried to blackmail Indonesian President Sukarno by telling him they had a sex tape of him. Sukarno was delighted and asked for extra copies