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

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ANNnw TIL about lithopedions : stone children - Unborn calcified foetuses
ADE0o TIL that the 4.6 billion streams of "Despacito" used as much electricity as the combined annual electricity consumption of Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Somalia, Sierra Leone and the Central African Republic.
X0gkX TIL that To reduce eye strain, you should look at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds every 20 minutes.
b6kMj TIL the Easter Whip tradition in the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, and parts of Hungary involves splashing girls with water and spanking them with decorated willow branches on Easter Monday. This is believed to ensure their health, beauty, and fertility for the next year.
oROv7 TIL Glasmine 43, an anti-personnel mine with a glass body used by the Nazi Germany during World War II. Designed with the minimum amount of metal to reduce the likelihood of detection.