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TIL that wolverines are being trained to find and rescue avalanche survivors, because they are naturally inclined to sniff out animals 20 feet below the snow and eat them.

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DPKJ TIL that until last year’s fad, the number one buyer of kale was Pizza Hut - as a decoration for their salad bars, not as food.
8a0wP TIL The first email attachment ever sent was on March 11, 1992, by Nathaniel Borenstein, "the father of the file attachment". The creation of this technology (co-created by Ned Freed) was to fulfill Borenstein's desire to one day be able to receive pictures of future grandchildren via email.
VMv5k TIL In 1962 the Canadian Navy accidentally shelled an American town with live rounds
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v1MYR TIL The equivalents of the idiom “It’s all Greek to me” in world languages use other kinds of languages other than Greek.