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TIL Dogs have ‘Eureka moments’ and enjoy the experience of solving a problem in order to obtain a reward.

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NgaQ TIL In 2005, 110 players won the Powerball by using fortune cookie numbers
b6W9j TIL: The world's oldest known recipe is for beer and dates back to ancient Sumeria around 1800
VBmk4 TIL that in the US, "Since 1996, 68 [American] football players have died from exertional heat stroke (50 high school, 13 college, 2 professional, 2 organized youth, and 1 middle school)."
8aA1X TIL that until 1953, New York City had a pneumatic tube mail network that spanned 27 miles and connected 23 post offices. At its peak, the system moved 95,000 letters a day.
4kLn5 TIL Though not as often referenced or as documented, the Connecticut Witch Trials took place about 30 years before the Salem Witch Trials and were the first of their kind recorded in American history.