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TIL that Cuttlefish are one of the only animals besides humans to go into REM sleep. Not only that, but they flash random colors as they do it.

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wLjlo TIL orcas can teach themselves to communicate with dolphins. A group of researchers in California discovered that orcas living alongside dolphins changed their vocalizations by adding in more clicks and whistles to match the dolphin’s communication.
Ym6W TIL Chevrolet Vegas were shipped vertically in their rail cars
ANZgo TIL that there is a village in Japan that is built in "Swedish-style" with the common red wooden "falu-houses".
GYrWE TIL there is a species of freshwater seal that lives in a lake in northern Canada, the only seal population to do so
KObA9 TIL of Lost Bird, a Lakota child who was found under the frozen corpse of her mother after four days in a snowbank, adopted by a General, and lived a brief, terrible life. Later buried at Wounded Knee.