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TIL during 9/11 rescue dogs had found such few survivors, their handlers had to hide and allow the dogs to find them to boost spirits

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0EgM TIL: Martin Luther King Jr. said, “People who have a stake in their society, protect their society, but when when they don’t have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.”
5VwPD TIL that Robert Hooke has been called “England’s Leonardo.” He discovered microorganisms and a law of elasticity; observed the rotation of planets; revolutionized city planning; and presaged theories of optics, gravity, and evolution.
BrDLr TIL Emilio Morella is an Argentine man who was the first documented person born on the continent of Antarctica, in 1978. His pregnant mother had been airlifted there by Argentina in order to support their claim for part of the Antarctic as their territory
8agWX TIL, there are 38 subspecies of wolves (Canis Lupus), yet all domesticated dogs from Chihuahuas to Great Danes are only one of those subspecies.
OK7X TIL that neanderthals didn’t rely on lightning strikes to make fire, instead, they used chemistry, by putting manganese dioxide on wood to lower the temperature required to create a flame.