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TIL: Putting duct tape on a horses nose calms them down to help you shoe them.

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vPeJD TIL that during the Apache Wars in the American Southwest, the Apache would cut the Army's telegraph lines but reconnect the ends together with a strip of leather to make the break in the circuit nearly impossible to find.
VKZQ TIL “Thrift Shop” by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis was the first song since 1994 to reach No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart without the support of a major record label.
a8LZb TIL that the human-dog relationship goes back many thousands of years. A skeleton of a dog, buried 14,000 years ago, was found next to that of two people. The dog skeleton shows that it survived a serious infection as a puppy. Had humans not frequently fed and cleaned the dog, it would have died.
WkXw8 TIL of Tore Hedin, a Swedish murderer who robbed and killed a friend in 1951. To cover his tracks, he also burned down the crime scene. As he was a local police officer, he helped investigate the crime and even answered questions about it from the national media.
ADLll TIL that blue pigment does not exist in nature (with the exception of the obrina olivewing butterfly). Everything else, including flowers, is due to some kind of light reflection.