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TIL that Newfoundland dogs have webbed paws!

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0bb1 TIL At the height of apartheid in South Africa the most popular television show among whites was The Cosby Show. During the apartheid government’s State of Emergency in the mid 1980s when it was illegal to publish photos of Mandela, Bill Cosby became the most recognizable black man in South Africa
w0Z1 TIL Bananas produce antimatter at the rate of one positron every 75 minutes.
raQw TIL that British researchers developed a pheromone-derived odorant that men perceive as ‘threatening’. Collection agencies purchased it at £3000/g after realizing that spraying it on bills increased payment rates by 17%
RL8l TIL each of the four major professional sports leagues in the U.S. has a contingency plan if, God forbid, an entire team were to perish in a plane crash.
p84dZ TIL that when a city builds more roads to reduce traffic the speed gains will usually disappear within a month, if not weeks.