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TIL about the Moylan Arrow. An arrow on the fuel gauge that shows which side of the vehicle the gas tank is located.

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0wwVy TIL that 12,000 bears are farmed for their bile in Asia which is used in traditional Chinese medicine and generates $2bn per year. Farming always involves surgery on the bears to insert a catheter or to cut a hole through the abdomen by which the bile leaks. Bear bile has no medicinal effect.
p8pKO TIL that scientists came together in a unique study that observed exactly 1,893 dogs pooping among 37 different breeds of dog, and found that dogs have "magnetoreception". Apparently while they are calm, they poop facing north or south. Quite a few other mammals do this too.
vPeRL TIL that movie star and European karate champion black belt Dolph Lundgren, who earned a Masters in Chemical Engineering and received a scholarship from MIT, is also an abuse survivor.
JYoZ1 TIL Beethoven once responded to criticism of one of his pieces with "What I shit is better than anything you could ever think up!"
4X9rg TIL The family Scapegoat is often the family member who is non-compliant with mistreatment, the whistle blower, expresses displeasure or advocates for their own needs, and is then demonized as the family problem, thereby establishing a ‘false narrative’ of victim blaming.