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TIL gelada baboons are aware of the concept of “cheating” on their partners, suppressing their mating cries while cheating, with the dominant male attacking the “cheaters” if discovered.

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e0l65 TIL Towser the Mouser was a tortoiseshell cat that caught more than 28,000 mice at the Famous Grouse Whiskey distillery in Scotland. She’s in the Guinness Book of Records as best mouser, and they have a statue of her at the distillery.
698pY TIL: The "Wade" in the Roe v Wade was a district attorney in Dallas , TX and presided over the Jack Ruby case.
D7vp TIL A million-dollar wound or Blighty wound is military slang referring to a type of wound received in combat which is serious enough to get the person sent away from the fighting, but is not fatal, nor will it leave the person permanently crippled.
e0NZk TIL the reason your nose gets stuffy when you cry is because your Lacrimal gland drains your tears out to your nose
a9y9 TIL 50 years ago a young girl died in the canals surrounding an uninhabited island in Xochimilco, Mexico. Ever since, dolls have been washed ashore, and the few natives hang them in memory of the young girl. The island is known as “Island of the Dolls”