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TIL rats are incredibly compassionate - showing more empathy driven behavior than some humans.

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b9kNa TIL that by the end of the Napoleonic Wars, France was conscripting men shorter than five feet (1.5 m) tall.
MWbV TIL Democritus supposed the existence of atoms and the empty space between them in 400BC
YpKQP TIL that the Chevalier d'Éon (French diplomat and spy) lived 49 years as a male and 33 as a female.
p85OG TIL A guy known as the coughing major, won $1 million dollars on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire by having people he knows in the audience cough at the right answers as they were being said by the host. He eventually got caught as show producers reviewed footage and found out he was cheating.
jNnLp TIL the reason why frogs/toads croak after a rain is due to attract mates for mating.