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TIL a 2015 Japanese study suggests that looking at pictures of puppies and kittens can help improve focus and concentration.

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yQJPe TIL the first computer with a graphical user interface, the Xerox Alto, had a portrait-oriented monitor
Z9AR TIL that in 2005, some 1,500 sheep jumped off a cliff, in Turkey. Only the first 450 or so were killed, as the remaining animals’ falls were cushioned by the dead bodies below. More recently 50 sheep on their way to slaughter and jumped to their deaths in an unexplained and unprovoked mass suicide.
grZZD TIL that among the many CIA plots to assassinate, overthrow, or humiliate Fidel Castro, one plan called for poisoning him so that his beard would fall out.
Z8v5o TIL that the "Chinese Zodiac" isn't just 12, but 60 years, made up of two distinct cycles of elements and animals.
W70do TIL About Diana Budisavljević, the female Schindler, who undertook one of the greatest humanitarian acts in WWII, by saving over 7,700 children from concentration camps in the area of what is today's Croatia