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TIL Some teen thieves were made to dress up as Flintstones characters as punishment for stealing a Flintmobile replica from a comic book store

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KOmva TIL sharks are called "swimming noses" because 2/3 of their brains are olfactory lobes. They can smell blood in water at 1 part per million from hundreds of meters away. But their sense of taste isn't linked to their nose and is not as developed, so often they bite once then decide not to kill.
XEnj TIL a Canadian polymer $20 bill costs 19 cents to manufacture
X0ggk TIL A man injected thousands of counterfeit $2 coins into Canada’s banking system by making large deposits into his personal accounts. They are known as "Camel Toe toonies" because fake coins have outsized toes on the polar bear’s right paw
EgxpV TIL baby aspirin isn't for babies and Reye's syndrome is real
KY6GG TIL about "Sham" surgeries in which a placebo group is told they received a surgery when in fact they only had a small skin incision while sedated. In one study, those in the placebo group reported the same shoulder pain relief as those getting the actual shoulder surgery