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TIL that Komodo dragons have iron-coated teeth

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QJOvX TIL of "scent branding" and how businesses pump custom scents into their buildings. Nike's signature scent was reportedly inspired by the smell of a rubber basketball sneaker as it scrapes across the court and a soccer cleat in grass and dirt.
5OAR TIL Paramount Studios approved Jackass 3D after seeing test footage of Chris Pontius’ penis tethered to a remote-controlled helicopter
KYlJ TIL that a Greek soldier chased his dog across the border resulting in a Bulgarian invasion. It was called the “War of the Stray Dog”.
ByNy TIL that cochlear implants, rather than amplifying sound like a conventional hearing aid, actually converts sound into an electrical signal and transmits that signal directly to the auditory nerves!
9wQ1B TIL in December of 1996, a crime novelist was found hanged by a noose from his Chicago office window. Although officially ruled to be suicide, several items were found on him including a bulletproof vest, brass knuckles, mace and an unfinished novel that oddly contained a similar suicide scene.