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TIL police dogs can be trained to detect either explosives or narcotics, but never both.

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X0k1j TIL that Spanish Fly, often believed to be an aphrodisiac, actually causes vomiting, severe gastro-intestinal bleeding, and kidney failure
6EMpJ TIL that Louisiana's Airline Highway was so named because it runs relatively straight--and only later, two major airports were built alongside it.
LQjgm TIL in 1948 a state of emergency was declared in the British colony of Malaya (now Malaysia) as Malayan rebels were attacking rubber plantations and mines. The insurgency was described as an 'emergency' because insurers would not have compensated plantation owners if it had been labelled a 'war'.
VlvG TIL The Japanese Giant Hornet is woven from the fabric of nightmares: It’s the size of your thumb and sprays flesh-melting poison in your eyes that also has a pheromone cocktail in it that’ll call every hornet in the hive to come over and sting you to death
PYD5E TIL two Alaskan islands were occupied by Japan in WWII.