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TIL: Dogs have anal sacs that secrete liquid scent when defecating and this is why they smell butts

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5YXxQ TIL That banks can't charge military personnel more than 6% interest on credit card, auto loan or mortgage while they are on active duty.
OEDg TIL Armstrong’s Limit is the altitude above which no human can survive without pressurization, even if using an oxygen mask. Water in the lungs will boil at body temperature, due to the reduced pressure.
6pG7 TIL that in the 60s the US struck a deal with the UK to buy an unpopulated Indian ocean island for a military base. The UK didn’t have an unpopulated island, so it forcibly expelled the inhabitants of the British Indian Ocean Territory until it WAS uninhabited.
Nj1E TIL that, thanks to a communication failure, a lot more US soldiers died during the preparation excersize for the “Utah Beach” Normandy invasion than the actual invasion itself.
QB6 TIL - Buzz Aldrin, a Presbyterian, was the first person to hold a religious ceremony on the Moon. After landing on the Moon, he gave himself Communion on the surface of the Moon, but he kept it secret because of a lawsuit brought over the reading of Genesis on Apollo 8