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TIL Scandinavians have a right to travel freely across their countries including camping on others privately owned property

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GYN0G TIL Rats have empathy. When offered the choice of a tempting chocolate treat, or rescuing a drowning rat, they chose to rescue the drowning rat.
loAer TIL that Soviet artillery launched an attack in 1942 to silence German guns specifically so that Shostakovich's 7th Symphony could premiere in Leningrad, even though the city was under siege and the musicians were starving to death, with three dying during rehearsals
oBQko TIL that bees have been shown to detect and respond to more than 60 different odours including being able to detect lung and skin cancers, diabetes, and to confirm pregnancy.
xVneD TIL why radar side lobes are detrimental to radar accuracy. They allow echos and jamming to be received by the radar antenna despite the fact they do not come from the direction the antenna is pointed to. Once received, there is no simple way of distinguishing them from the wanted signals.
Z0AY TIL when Sitting Bull was killed in a gunfight by agents attempting to arrest him, His Horse-which was gifted to him by Buffalo Bill - heard gunshots and began performing its Wild West Routine, getting on its haunches and dancing. It was believed that the slain chief’s spirit had entered his horse.