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TIL dogs have areas of their brain that process faces, just like humans

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JYMmQ TIL a "nail house" is a home whose resident refuses to leave in order to make way for new construction. In China this has lead to some almost sculpture-like creations.
J11xm TIL Koalas sleep 20 hours or more to slow down their metabolism rate and conserve their body energy
ND4M TIL that in 2007, a 75 year old woman smashed up a Comcast office with a hammer because she was fed up with their poor customer service
EgZ5P TIL "Jelly Babies" were first named "Unclaimed Babies"
XgaE TIL in 1978 a US Navy ship was attacked by an unknown species of giant squid. Nearly all of the cuts found on the ship contained remnants of sharp, curved claws found on suction cups of some squid tentacles. The claws were much larger than those of any squid that had been discovered at that time.