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TIL that scientists created a 60 year long experiment in Siberia, selectively breeding wild foxes who showed friendly traits. 40 generations later they were as friendly as dogs!

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w1a7 TIL inner speech (AKA the voice inside your head) is accompanied by tiny muscular movements in the larynx
9yGp TIL that Jacqueline Kennedy requested an eternal flame for her husband’s grave and that group of Catholic schoolchildren were sprinkling the temporary flame with holy water. The cap came off the bottle and water poured onto the flame, putting it out.
Gj14 TIL the average color of light in the universe is a shade of beige dubbed “Cosmic Latte”
ADB7d TIL about the QWERTY Effect in which people attach more positive meanings to words and names that can be typed with the right hand
4kNDN TIL - Vacuum Microelectronics is a field of study, to shrink old-fashioned vacuum tubes used in radios and TV's prior to the 60's, down to a sub-millimeter size.