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TIL a 2015 study found that people were twice as likely to post a picture of a cat than a selfie online. There were more views per video of cats than of any other category of YouTube, & people didn't feel guilty about watching them instead of doing what they should've been doing

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j6G9p TIL that scientists created a 60 year long experiment in Siberia, selectively breeding wild foxes who showed friendly traits. 40 generations later they were as friendly as dogs!
gro44 TIL Acorn Woodpeckers bore small holes into dead trees, which they store acorns inside of to eat during the winter. Sometimes generations of woodpeckers reuse the same tree to store their harvests, adding up to 50,000 holes!
X0goX TIL that according to the National Registry of Exonerations in the United States, 27% of those on the registry who were accused of homicide, but were later exonerated, gave false confessions. 81% of people with mental illness or intellectual disabilities also confessed when accused of homicide.
4Xl6J TIL there is an entrance fee to enter the cemetary to visit the tomb of Karl Marx
loGQA TIL about Jose Castellanos Contreras, a Salvodoran army colonel and diplomat, who, while working as El Salvador's Consul General for Geneva during WWII, helped save up to 40,000 Jews and Central Europeans from the Nazis by secretly issuing thousands of "certificates of Salvadoran citizenship"