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TIL: Ancient Greeks created spiked dog collars as a way of protecting their dogs’ throats from being ripped out by wolves. (as a fashion item, this is interesting...)

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eY54 TIL that the US Flag Code states when a flag is no longer in appropriate condition it “should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.”
rR7ww TIL that there's a legal difference between a non-profit organization and not-for-profit organization in the US. For example, The income that nonprofit and not-for-profit organizations generate is used differently.
B86r TIL: There are three predictors of homicidal behavior. The first is firesetting or pyromania. The second is animal cruelty. And the third one is…..bedwetting!
lGvG TIL in the movie District 9, at the beginning of the movie when the locals are talking about the aliens, they are actually real interviews talking about illegal alien immigrants.
nroo TIL that the inventor of birth control was not only a devout Catholic, but designed aspects of the pill in a specific way in order to achieve acceptance from the Catholic church, convinced that they would quickly adopt it.