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6EjPl TIL that dogs' feet smell like Fritos due to a number of naturally occurring bacteria
rN6Oo TIL The French conquest of Algeria lasted over 70 years, and five separate French governments. In the end as much as a third of Algeria's population was killed in the decades of invasions.
j6rlv TIL of the Transfermium Wars, a controversy between US and Soviet scientists about the names of super-heavy elements. The final outcome was to name element 104 as "rutherfordium", element 105 as "dubnium" and element 106 as "seaborgium", which more closely matched the US than the Soviet proposals.
nWovP TIL In 1971 Michael S. Hart created the first eBook by typing the United States Declaration of Independence into a Xerox Sigma V mainframe computer at the University of Illinois. Soon after he transmitted the text to other users on the mainframe’s network.
grdp8 TIL Present-day giant pandas are estimated to have diverged from their closest relatives, all other bears 20 million years ago, based on molecular data