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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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b9mVN TIL that art thieves posing as police officers stole 13 works valued at $500 million from the the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in 1990. The stolen artwork include paintings by Rembrandt, Manet and Vermeer. The artwork hasn't been recovered, and empty frames hang in their place.
XE56Q TIL actor John Banner, famous for his iconic role as Master Sergeant Hans Georg Schultz in CBS' Hogan's Heroes, was an Austrian-born Jew. He emigrated to the United States in 1938, and sadly, lost many of his family in the Holocaust.
neKgW TIL that Linus Pauling, the extremely smart scientist who claimed Vitamin C would treat the common cold, prolong your life, and cure cancer, died in 1994 due to prostate cancer, a disease that he said vitamins would cure.
VDJG TIL on the California side of the US-Mexico border, there’s a town called Calexico, and on the opposite side there’s a town called Mexicali.
PyLZ TIL the phrase ‘23 Skidoo’, meaning “let’s get out of here”, was America’s first truly national fad expression.