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TIL: The first state allowing women to vote was Wyoming

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1YYV TIL That the tested animal with the best memory, Chaser the border collie knows 1022 toys by name and can gather them all by name or category. She can also understand common nouns and can infer the meaning of new ones based on words she already knows
yQdll TIL that the Krypteia, a super secretive special unit in ancient Sparta, was the unit given the dubious task of controling their slave population by annual massacres. Even more messed up: they had to do the killings in secrecy and was punished by whipping if anyone caught them.
OGeL7 TIL The invention of the original silly string was accidental. Was originally intended as a spray-on instant cast for fractures.
0wYYL TIL: In the Brazilian jungle is an unfinished elevated freeway over 120 feet high in places with some tunnels and viaducts --abandoned and connected to nothing.
Ob8X TIL scientists have found that Ozzy Osbourne has unique genetic mutations that that increase his body’s endurance for hard drugs and excessive alcohol: the “genes connected to addiction, alcoholism … all had unique variations in Osbourne, a few of which geneticists had never seen before”