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TIL that Mexican pointy boots are a thing.

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epvKL TIL Nick Offerman, Adam Scott, and Chris Pratt had a pact while working on Parks & Recreation that if they had an exceptional poop, they would take a picture and send it to one another. Pratt said it started when he miraculously pooped in an N shape and sent it to Nick on his birthday
e6P6 TIL that during World War II in Australia, there was a dog whose hearing was so acute that it could warn airforce personnel of incoming Japanese planes 20 minutes before they arrived, and before they showed up on radar. “Gunner” could also differentiate the sounds of allied and enemy aircraft.
x6eZk TIL as recently as 2011, Dr Pepper ran an ad campaign with the slogan “Dr Pepper: IT’S NOT FOR WOMEN”. There was even a Facebook page that only men could access, where men would shoot at “girlie” things like flowers and rainbows.
4XWg TIL Samuel R. Caldwell (February 11, 1880 - June 24, 1941) was the first person convicted of selling marijuana under the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, according to federal files.
mxKVY TIL there are plans to dig a tunnel under the Baltic Sea, directly linking Finland and Estonia's capital cities by rail