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TIL the "Millennial Pause" is a phenomenon where generations older than Gen Zs tend to pause before speaking when a camera begins recording.

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l7nVB TIL about rodent guillotines, which are used by researchers to kill the lab rodents when they've no more use for them
1a7y7 TIL apes don't ask questions. While apes can learn sign language and communicate using it, they have never attempted to learn new knowledge by asking humans or other apes. They don't seem to realize that other entities can know things they don't. It's a concept that separates mankind from apes.
4XPmN TIL that ‘spontaneous human combustion’ has been recorded to have happened several times in history.
7rMdb TIL at any given time there are about 2000 thunderstorms around the globe producing approximately fifty lightning events per second.
oBMVL TIL there are bronze statues of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (and Splinter) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, donated by their comics co-creator & university alum Peter Laird.