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TIL: That there are 'Technology Sniffer Dogs'.

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9YNR7 TIL that an American minister travelled to Britain to learn methods to teach the deaf. After being denied by the British, he learned his methods from the French. As a result, ASL has a 60% similarity to French sign language, and is almost unintelligible to a British sign language user.
Ypwnv TIL The Lake at the Bellagio Las Vegas is serviced by a freshwater well that was drilled decades prior to irrigate a golf course on the site. The lake actually uses less water than irrigating the Golf Course did.
v1wor TIL that chainsaws were originally created to help with childbirth. If the baby was to large to fit through the birth canal, then the doctors had to cut parts of the pelvic bone with a chainsaw. Also, the woman that was giving birth was not given any anesthesia through this procedure.
VMZP4 TIL in 1951 a 66 year old man wasn’t allowed to enter a 1800km (1118 miles) long bicykle race due to being to old. He showed up anyways and won the race by biking for days without sleep. He got the nickname ”Grandpa Steel”
l1ZN TIL that a movie was made in 1980 that was so graphic and realistic that the director was arrested on charges of making a snuff film.