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TIL about knees that are reversed are caused by muscle issues and is easily curable.

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kOgK1 TIL a study found that people had empathy for an attacked victim suffering a broken leg, multiple lacerations and unconscious in the following order, most empathy to least empathy: a one-year-old human, a puppy, an adult dog, a 30-year-old man.
wLZoJ TIL that the one of the Romanov’s dogs survived the family’s execution and lived out the remainder of his life in exile in Britain.
R7lr9 TIL that Killian, a black labrador, saved a baby boy from an abusive babysitter by staying between the baby and the sitter and alerting the parents. Parents tried recording the scene, and the sitter was convicted.
6pWZ TIL that in West Virginia and Ohio it is illegal to warm your car up and leave it running to go back inside during cold weather months.
x6e6b TIL the Library of Congress has a “free to use and reuse” section featuring millions of photos, books, films, and sound recordings that are either in the public domain, have no known copyright, or have been cleared by the copyright owner for public use.