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Jun 25, 2020
TIL the Japanese Fire-bellied Newts are able to regenerate body parts including the limbs, the tail and spinal cord, parts of the eye (such as the retina and the lens), the brain, the heart and the jaws.
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Apr 25, 2020
TIL of Ken Banks, a Queensland man who set up a "retirement home" for birds who outlive their owners, at one count housing at least 1,600 birds including a cockatoo in its 90s. He prefers not to sell birds but rather swap with breeders or give birds to people after teaching how to care for them.
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Dec 29, 2019
TIL about the holiday paradox and why time seems to go by more quickly as we age and when we are having fun. Our brain encodes new experiences, but not familiar ones, into memory, and our retrospective judgment of time is based on how many new memories we create over a certain period.
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Sep 19, 2019
TIL ‘Old-Person Smell’ was confirmed by scientists as real, along with distinct young- and middle-aged-person smells.
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Apr 27, 2019
TIL a city in China is enforcing a social credit score system for dog owners. Owners begin with 12 points but lose points for walking a dog without a leash, not cleaning up poo or being reported for disturbance. Loss of 12 points results in loss of the dog until its owner passes a test on pet policy
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