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TIL that male puppies will let female puppies win at play fighting so that they will continue to play with them

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VMeEQ TIL plants often grow more after being watered with rainwater compared to regular water. Lightning in the atmosphere produces bio-available organic compounds (nitrates and ammonium, found in fertilizers) from the inert Nitrogen gas found in air, which then get dissolved in raindrops
OG67X TIL thousands of Enron emails are available online after they were made publicly available when Enron was being investigated by energy regulators
BrpYK TIL that the “ah-choo” sound people make when sneezing is a cultural learned behavior. For example, in the Phillipines they instead say “ha-ching”, the Japanese say “hakashun”, and deaf people don’t add any sounds at all.
xVn77 TIL that Henry VIII pestered Anne Boleyn for seven YEARS before she slept with him.
bO47 TIL a Philadelphia man on a business trip to Boston noticed paper curling out from behind his office blinds. He flipped the blinds and saw a giant photo of his identical twin brother staring back at him. His twin had worked in the same office in the same building years earlier.