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

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44PR TIL that there’s an underground city beneath Beijing that covers 85 square kilometres. Built in the 70s in preparation for nuclear war it’s described as being “dark, damp, and genuinely eerie”
691ml TIL - The first and second verse of The Beatles song “A Day in the Life” were inspired by the real death of friend and Guinness family heir Tara Browne.
0wPap TIL it is possible to record 4 outs in a half inning of baseball. Thanks Snapple!
bMQ4 TIL Daniel Radcliffe’s stuntdouble for the first 6 Harry Potter movies is paralyzed from an accident on set during the filming of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows….X-Post r/Wtf_facts
awexA TIL There is an ongoing study of Dutch seniors over age 100, self-reported to be cognitively healthy, where they are followed annually until death. Centenarians came from higher socio-economic classes and had higher levels of education compared to their birth cohort