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TIL a high school teacher, inspired by the movie “Up”, was threatened to be fired after using a dog collar dubbed “the cone of shame” on bad students.

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kOpXm TIL that the Lumière brothers, the inventors of motion picture, once said that "the cinema is an invention without any future" and gave up on the technology to go back to focusing on photography, so their involvement in the early history of film was quite brief
X0LkD TIL, humans develop as an anus first before developing the mouth.
N7dw8 TIL that in the 1920s, cows started spontaneously hemorrhaging. It was found they were eating hay from moldy sweet clover; the mold helped convert an aromatic compound in the clover into an anticoagulant. The substance was isolated and used as rat poison, and later the drug Warfarin.
yQynM TIL that when ships pass through Point Nemo in the Pacific Ocean, the nearest land mass is 1677 (2,700 kms) miles away. This means that at certain times of the day, the nearest humans are on the international space station (ISS) 258 miles (416 kms) up.
jXZX TIL humans may have accidentally caused climate change once before– 11,000 years ago, by killing off woolly mammoths, which transformed North American grasslands into birch forests, which in turn burned so intensely that the climate in North America changed.