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TIL dogs will sneeze to tell other dogs that they’re playing, so that their rough playing doesn’t turn into a fight

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Ka1R TIL of Oscar the Cat who predicted when people in his nursing home were about to die with such accuracy that staff would call relatives.
kL8m TIL that In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park in New York despite being dead. He suffered a heart attack mid-race, but his body stayed in the saddle until his horse crossed the line for a 20–1 outsider victory.
gBMD TIL in 1987, a 43 year-old man took a teenage girl out into the Californian woods to search for Bigfoot. He came back without her, saying a Bigfoot had abducted her. The man never was convicted, went free, and the girl is still missing to this day.
xVB9b TIL there is a Kurdish saying that they have “no friends but the mountains”. This is due to their status as a stateless minority and frequent betrayal by their allies.
4XbxJ TIL the first non-Neapolitan to win the World Pizza Cup in Naples had to escorted off the stage by police for fear of being attacked by the crowd.