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TIL That rats, like dolphins and humans, are thought to have metacognition, the awareness of your ability to think.

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kr97 TIL The US overthrew a democratic government in Guatemala, in favor of the dictator Jorqe Ubico, because the United Fruit Company was an American owned company and they didn’t want to pay for the taxes or the import duties on bananas.
7rw77 TIL the sunbittern, native to Central and South America, generally has a subdued brownish coloration while feeding. When alarmed, however, it displays its exceptional chestnut, black, and buff-yellow eyespots on the dorsal side of its wings and its colorful tail, which it uses in defensive displays.
eL0D TIL in the extinct Australian language Mbabaram, the word for dog is ‘dog’. This is purely a coincidence and there is no relation between the words
eRYL TIL The first postage stamp to depict a nude woman was printed in Spain in 1930, in commemoration of Goya’s painting ‘La maja desnuda’ (the nude maja). In the same year, the United States government barred and returned any mail bearing the stamps.
d8Ye9 TIL a man was arrested for intentionally vomiting on an 11-year-old girl at a Philadelphia Phillies game