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TIL petting a dog for 5 to 24 minutes increases the hormone oxytocin levels in both the human and dog, neurochemically stimulating bonding between them

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OGxdg TIL There were nazi prisoner camps in rural Virginia towards the end of WW2. They were there to, among other things, to pick apples while American Servicemen were fighting in Europe.
gr0VX TIL: In the 1920s there was a mob hitman called Willie "Two-Knife" Altieri who was noted to have soft womanly hands, used his knives to clean his fingernails, and slept with them. He killed dozens of rival gangsters before disappearing in 1928 after Al Capone killed his boss.
5Y169 TIL the tallest and shortest ever NBA players played on the same team (7'7" Manute Bol and 5'3" Muggsy Bogues)
OG5Ag TIL Stanley Kubrick was a chess hustler, spending days down in Washington Square Park earning money against the regulars who haunted it. During the 1950s, Kubrick would often be found in Washington Square, a park in New York City, playing chess from 12 noon until 12 midnight
epapJ TIL Walter Mondale became the first major candidate to ever lose election in all 50 states after losing the 2002 US Senate election in Minnesota, the only state that voted for him in the 1984 US Presidential election