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TIL the only commodity banned from futures trading in the United States is … onions

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9YMY7 TIL that dogs can tell time by smell. They can smell different times of the day, and how long you've been gone by how much your(owner's) smell has dissipated since you've left.
MbK7 TIL that “The Elf on the Shelf” is criticized for teaching kids that it’s okay to be spied on, another tool of the surveillance state
W7Z7X TIL in 2008 and 2015, unmarked mass graves of were discovered in Michigan. They were from Northwest Orient 2501, a plane that vanished over Lake Michigan. Some debris was found, but the wreckage was never recovered. Some body parts were recovered and then buried in these graves.
pYwge TIL that the male satin bowerbird only gets its characteristic blue colour at about eight to nine years. Satin bowerbirds live to for about eight to nine years in the wild.
WOL TIL that in WWII the US tricked the German postal service into inadvertently delivering anti-Nazi propaganda to German citizens through mail in the form of stamps