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TIL that rats masturbate

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jB1a TIL Bipolar disorder may have been a climatic adaptation for humans to survive short summers (manic episodes for high productivity) and long winters (depression to slow metabolism).
pYdxb TIL Marlon Brando who played a human in the movie "The Island of Dr. Moreau" had a demand where he wanted to remove his hat at the end of the movie and reveal he was a dolphin all along, the director refused.
XpvR TIL the U.S. may soon take over (if it hasn’t already) as the #1 producer of pistacios in the world surpassing the former long time leader, wait for it, Iran.
YpJBW TIL Dartmouth (and a few other schools) makes all its students pass a swim test before the graduate, so that they won’t drown and waste their education.
D9OP TIL that The Smokey Bear Effect is a bad thing, decades of preventing small fires leads to the accumulation of undergrowth, that fuels massive superfires today