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TIL Every time a dog sees it’s owner, its brain secretes those same chemicals as our brains when we are in love.

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ADP5a TIL To punish and deter illegal tree-cutting around Christmas time, some cities and universities spray trees with fox urine. It freezes on the trees and is odorless outside, but the smell becomes "eye-watering" and irremovable once brought inside.
MeBMA TIL: 100 Years Ago, a Chunk of Mars Hit Egypt and killing a Dog. That's the only recorded case about killing alive creature by asteroids.
ADbd4 TIL In 1956, Jackie Robinson Retired from MLB for VP of Chock Full O' Nuts, Iconic New York Coffee Company
B09d TIL that scholars have only translated or read 30,000 of the 2 million known cuneiform tablets.
xVQ1b TIL the iconic, tall, long-armed Saguaro Cactus, which has become a symbol of the American West, only grows in one place. It's native to the Sonoran Desert, an area of land along the Arizona, California, and Mexico borders.