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TIL There are people whose jobs include masturbating dogs for a living. They are called theriogenologists. 😳

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N7KvN TIL that an estimated 120,000 prisoners in the United States prison system have been wrongfully incarcerated.
08RL TIL that in Germany, attempting to escape from the prison is completely legal — Getting yourself free is considered a basic human instinct.
0mEy TIL that the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird was so fast, the designers did not even consider evasive maneuvers; the pilot was simply instructed to accelerate. This could effectively elude any threat, including surface-to-air missiles.
6EVwJ TIL that singer-songwriter Tori Amos, received a full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University at the age of five. She is the youngest person ever to have been admitted. At the age of eleven, she was expelled for what Rolling Stone described as "musical insubordination".
Mjmb TIL the story that NASA spent $1 million on a space pen while the soviets simply used a pencil is false. The pen was developed by a private company without any taxpayer dollars and NASA simply became a client afterwards.