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TIL Beagles are the dog breed most often used in animal testing, due to their size and passive nature.

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Oyw1 TIL Macadamia nuts are never sold in the shell because it takes ~300-pounds-per-square-inch of pressure to break the shell! (Bonus: you probably already knew that macadamias are NOT native to Hawaii, coming originally from Australia.)
gr7o7 Today I learned half of Canton, MA got bleach balooned
7rD7 TIL Steve Carell supported the 2007 WGA strike and called in sick to the network “ citing the case of enlarged balls as to why he couldn’t come in.”
0dJX1 TIL Canada has shorter term mortgage contracts that have to be renewed when the contract expires. 5 year terms are most common.
a899M TIL that Gabe Newell, president of the video game company Valve which created steam, owns Inkfish, an ocean-exploration research organisation which currently holds the records for the deepest crewed dives in all five oceans with their deep-submergence vehicle Limiting Factor