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

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ONA6 TIL 44% of the people who didn’t evacuate for Hurricane Katrina stayed because they didn’t want to abandon their pets, this prompted major changes to state and federal laws regarding the evacuation of pets during disasters.
QJ8na TIL in the late 80s NASA studied house plants as a means of providing cleaner and purer air for their space stations. They found Peace Lilies and Chrysanthemums to be the best all rounders at air filtering.
5ekR TIL that mucophagy, or eating your own boogers, strengthens the immune system and children who do this are healthier and happier than their peers
69BxQ TIL South Dakota was the divorce capitol of the US in the late 19th century because of lenient laws, and the state government didn’t like it
LkMrQ TIL that the Myers-Brigg Personality Test is characterized as pseudoscience, due to its "consistent problems with repeatability, in addition to problems of whether or not it has exhaustive and mutually exclusive classifications", landing it on the same list as Modern flat Earth beliefs and astrology