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TIL New York has a memorial to Benedict Arnold's leg

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kJvnd TIL there are sound frequencies that can only be heard by teenagers and some stores use devices that emit these sounds to keep teenagers from loitering.
KOn8R TIL bird brains pack neurons much more densely than mammals allowing some birds to have a total brain cell count comparable to primates
yVnDM TIL about the Chamblee hostage incident, where a man named Kenneth Lamar Noid, believing Domino's "Noid" mascot was mocking him, took hostages in a restaurant with a gun in 1990.
vPVD TIL that, when playing fetch, dogs constantly change their speed and direction to keep the object they are fetching in a constant spot in their retina.
4XbnJ TIL in 1979, the movie "The China Syndrome" - about a nuclear reactor failure in Pennsylvania - premiered 12 days before an actual nuclear reactor failure in Pennsylvania called the Three Mile Island accident.