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TIL that a company called No More Woof is developing a device and software which monitors dogs’ brainwaves and translates mental states into English so that they can tell us how they’re feeling

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wLEdE TIL some marathon runners elect to have their toenails permanently removed. Their level of running causes friction on the toes and results in toenails routinely becoming damaged and detached. To circumvent chronic nail wounds, some people just get rid of them entirely.
GZR5 TIL after the courtesan Leæna (whose name means lioness) refused to reveal the name of the conspirators that tried to kill the Athenian tyrant Hippias under torture, the Athenians erected a tongueless lioness statue in her memory and placed lionesses next to statues of Aphrodite.
wbMW TIL the first thing to ever be sold on the internet was a bag of weed.
gMMb7 Short answer: A solitary genius makes for a better screenplay
EgEXW TIL that California is named after a fictitious island described in a series of 16th century Spanish romance novels. The island was described as being inhabited by beautiful black women who wore gold armor.