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TIL Salvador Dalí had a pet ocelot named Babou.

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XZO8 TIL Squirrels can rotate their ankles 180 degrees, can see peripherally in perfect vision, and greet their nest-mates by nuzzling and ‘kissing’ at the end of the day.
1a0WP The reason we like straight lines is because of a fundamental property of the Universe – the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
g7Ob TIL that Thomas Jefferson proposed a bill that punished male rapists with castration.
GAL0Q TIL The remains of a complete male A. dirus (Dire Wolf) are sometimes easy to identify compared to other Canis specimens because the baculum (penis bone) of the dire wolf is very different from that of all other living canids.
7Xjb TIL the famous ‘risky selfie girl’, Russian girl Xenia Ignatyeva, who used to take selfies on top of high buildings and in other dangerous places with her boyfriend, actually died doing this. In 2014, she fell off a roof and landed on a live cable and got electrocuted to death.