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TIL that when a dog nudges you, it signifies trust and friendliness

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69RkZ TIL a woman became addicted to bee stings. It started as an occasional sting to relieve pain from arthritis, but it "spiraled into a full-blown addiction" at 15 stings a day and about 50,000 times total since she started.
9wBRX TIL the Tree of Ténéré was once considered to be the most remote tree in the world. Located in the middle of the Sahara desert in Niger for over 300 years, it was hundreds of kilometres away from the nearest other tree. Somehow, a drunk truck driver managed to hit it and knock it down in 1973.
pWDQ TIL that the water between India and Sri Lanka is only 3-30 feet deep and was purportedly passable on foot until 1480 AD when a cyclone moved some sand around.
epkOb TIL about the Gaelic Celtic tradition of Keening, a verbal singing and mourning for the dead
XEp5R TIL in 1970 film critic Roger Ebert wrote the screenplay for ‘Beyond the Valley of the Dolls’. One review described it as “a treat for the emotionally retarded, sexually inadequate and dimwitted. It is a grievously sick melange of hypermammalian girls, obvious double-entendres and sadistic violence”