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TIL rats are capable of laughing.

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5Yel9 TIL Mike Myers' 2008 film "The Love Guru" was so badly received by critics he hasn't had an on-camera starring role in a film since. One critic, in his review, predicted it would be "career-killing" for Myers and "one of the worst films of at least the past several years."
jNGaa TIL on 28 November 1960 the Italian Judica-Cordiglia brothers intercepted an SOS signal moving away from earth from secret Soviet Union space programs before any human had managed to get beyond the stratosphere.
PY4Vn TIL California sea otters blow air into their fur to keep them afloat and insulated. This is possible because of their amazingly thick and intricate fur that traps the air bubbles as they blow onto it.
NXaaM TIL Minecraft (2009) was inducted in the Video Game Hall of Fame in 2020, along with Bejewled (2001), King’s Quest (1984), & Centipede (1980). This makes it the first game from the Seventh Generation of video game consoles (2005-13), which includes the PS3, Xbox 360, & Nintendo Wii, to be inducted.
0wZaR TIL in 1977, a woman in New Mexico saw a burn mark in her tortilla that looked like the face of Jesus. She then built and ran the "Shrine of the Miracle Tortilla" until 2006 when the tortilla was dropped and broken during show-and-tell at a local elementary school.