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TIL Domestic Dogs are the only species to understand pointing gestures!

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W7wrL TIL that there is a page to check if an image is a repost (to prevent you from reposting)
rRejy TIL the time between the first and last dynasty of ancient Egypt is more than 1000 years longer than between the last dynasty and now
b9eBj TIL of the Wake Island Rail, a little-known casualty of WW2; it went extinct when Japanese soldiers were stranded on the island by a US blockade. With no fear of predators, a combo of overhunting by the starving Japanese & the bombing of the island by the US wiped out the entire species in 1 year
9YOnr TIL that the actor who played French WW2 POW Cpl LeBeau in 1960s sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes” is a French Jew who survived imprisonment in the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp
oBWOE TIL that when Victor Vescovo reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest trench in the world, he discovered a plastic bag and candy wrappers at 10,928 metres (35,849 ft.) below the surface, confirming that human-generated waste can pollute even the deepest parts of the ocean