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TIL that the Doberman was bred to protect a hated tax collector.

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7J4b TIL that in winter 2010,terrorists tried to wander in Moscow wearing suicide belts with cellphones wired to their belts. When someone texts, the bomb detonates. An hour before the attack was supposed to be carried, one of the bombers received an automated text thus killing her and failing the plan.
x6E1 TIL that the first television program to show whites and blacks talking as equals was 1959’s Playboy Penthouse
R7mrl TIL that to deal with periods, “Until the turn of the 20th century, women simply bled into their clothes or, where they could afford it, shaped scraps of cloth or other absorbents like bark or hay into a pad or tampon-like object”
GY5LE TIL that the sons of famed WWII adversaries Erwin Rommel and George S. Patton became best friends and even shared the same birthday.
R7Ejj TIL The name Chilean Seabass is just a marketing name, and the fish is actually called a Toothfish