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TIL the "tail suspension test" is one method researchers use to measure depression in rats. Subjects are hung upside down by their tails and timed to measure how long it takes the rat to stop struggling and accept its fate.

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4kd7J TIL dogs have fur colored eyelashes
JY561 TIL that 15,000 to 20,000 per year are killed by land mines, most of them being civilian children, long after the conflict has ended.
v1YK8 TIL that native English speakers are never taught the correct way to order adjectives: they just know it
PY5YG TIL Over the Shinkansen's (Japan's Highspeed Rail) 50-plus year history, carrying over 5.3 billion passengers, there has been not a single passenger fatality or injury due to train accidents.
70r7 TIL:Anne Parrish, whilst browsing bookshops in Paris, came upon a book that was one of her childhood favorites. She picked up the old book and showed it to her husband. He opened it and found the inscription: “Anne Parrish, 209 N. Weber Street, Colorado Springs.” It was Anne’s very own book.