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TIL Babies are not aware their own bodies exist until ~15 months old!

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XEBdR TIL In 1961, a handful of the world's top scientists gathered at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia, to give Dolphins LSD. They noted as soon as the dolphin on LSD had contact with another intelligent mammal, it wouldn't shut up.
8aoJL TIL the Great cheese riot of 1766 was a reaction to inflated cheese prices. The mayor tried to restore order but was knocked down by a cheese. The military were called & shots were fired, killing one man. He'd been guarding his cheeses
4rmw TIL that a priest on the Titanic refused to board a life boat twice, and instead stayed behind to hear confessions and give absolution to the people left on the ship.
8KNK TIL that on September 29, 2008 – the day that began the worst stock market crash since the great depression – the opening bell of the NYSE didn’t ring for the first and only time in history.
p8oOG TIL that Geographical Information Systems were invented in Canada by Roger Tomlinson, a Brit.