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TIL Most corgis are born with tails, but due to AKC breed standards they have their tails docked 2-5 days after birth.

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g15y TIL Hermione Granger is 34 years old. Today.
8mkK TIL that the retinas of Robins contains Cryptochrome, a protein which allows them to see magnetic fields. The magnetic fields are visualised as patterns of light and shade and perhaps colour, onto the visual imagery.
g7NL TIL The Actors of Mad Men Smoke Herbal Cigarettes
yYpw TIL People in the final stages of hypothermia engage in “paradoxical undressing” because, as they lose rationality and their nerves are damaged, they feel incredibly, irrationally hot. They strip off their clothes to cool themselves down as they are freezing to death.
ZYbv TIL that the phenomenon of occupational sudden death in Japan is so common, that they invented a word for it: Karōshi (“death from overwork”).