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TIL, there are 38 subspecies of wolves (Canis Lupus), yet all domesticated dogs from Chihuahuas to Great Danes are only one of those subspecies.

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wZbW TIL Charles Schwab met a bunch of black American soldiers on a boat’s commissary in 1919, and as an experiment offered to lend them each a dollar. He gave them all his address, if they wanted to pay him back. 138 of 154 men did, almost 90%.
4kBja TIL meth was key to Nazi military strategy, between April - June 1940, the German army received 35,000,000 tablets of meth
ZdER Today I learned that golf courses have 18 holes, because The Old Course at St. Andrews changed to that in 1764, and others followed suit.
49eR TIL Fatal familial insomnia is a neurodegenerative disease eventually resulting in a complete inability to sleep. Many patients go six to nine months without sleep, during which time they develop dementia and become unresponsive. Death follows
jQGj TIL that after the British broke the enigma code based on a single flaw, they created their own similar code without that same flaw called “Typex”. The German military tried to crack it, but ultimately gave up.