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TIL squirrels will adopt another squirrel's baby if its parents die or are unable to care for it.

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VZpp TIL that comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter in 1994, after being broken apart from Jupiter’s tidal gravity. One fragment struck the planet’s surface with the estimated energy of 6 million megatons of TNT (600 times the world’s nuclear arsenal) and created a dark spot over 12,000 km across.
0wMl5 TIL In 1992, to celebrate 40 years of Indo-Japan relationship The Indian Epic Ramayana was made into an Anime Movie in collaboration with Indian and Japanese artist.In English it was narrated by James earl Jones and voice of Lord Rama was Bryan Cranston.
ZpR9D TIL that offering a reward for a previously unrewarded activity is a shift toward extrinsic motivation and a weakening of pre-existing intrinsic motivation
PYPXg TIL that during a prisoner revolt at Auschwitz in 1944, an SS guard was burned alive by prisoners in a crematorium oven
LLmd TIL that Stockholm, capital of Sweden, is built on 14 islands, and that the city centre is “virtually situated on the water”.