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TIL rats experience feelings of regret like humans

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OG4DY TIL: Panther is a general word, it does not refer to a species of wild cat. Panther is most commonly used to describe three different types of cat in the wild: leopards and jaguars in their black form, and pumas in Florida and the eastern US
4lwN TIL Sharon Stone slapped the director after seeing the Basic Instinct “leg-cross” scene for the first time. She’d removed her panties when the director told her the flash of white was ruining the shot and that nothing would show on-screen.
GAoGj TIL about exotic atoms. These are semu-stable elements, not on the periodic table, made from other fundamental particles. They can sometimes even bond with regular atoms.
P1pXn TIL that the most consecutive games played between two MLB team is 11. Detroit and St. Louis faced off eleven straight times in September of 1904.
gZx4 TIL - that an explorer and adventurer went missing in the Amazon in 1925 searching for El Dorado. Since then, around 100 people have died trying to find him, and as recently as 1996 an expedition to find his remains only got out after paying a ransom to their Kalapalo captors.