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TIL That on an English political program the presenter’s Golden Retriever sometimes wanders around the set.

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x67rB TIL Xiongnu emperor Helian Bobo set up extreme limits for his workers. If an arrow could penetrate armor, the armorer would be killed; if it could not, the arrowmaker would be killed. When he was building a fortress, if a wedge was able to be driven an inch into a wall, the wallmaker would be killed
g7n4 TIL that there is a street made out of wood in Philadelphia
xYbD TIL Scientists discovered in 2015 that Boa Constrictors kill their prey by cutting off their blood supply, not by suffocation like it was originally assumed.
kOaa1 TIL Steve Jobs once argued that’s it completely unnatural to touch the screen on a PC. He reportedly said people's arms would fatigue and called the idea “ergonomically horrible.”
69ev8 TIL Florida has an invasive population of wild monkeys that carry a strain of herpes that is transmissible to humans and can kill you.