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TIL Dogs prioritise the smell of humans over everything, according to an MRI of their brains, and view their owners as members of their family.

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MdMm TIL Thomas Jefferson kept a shetland sheep at the White House. It attacked several people, killed a small boy, and was eventually called “this abominable animal”.
W79yN TIL male kangaroos have two penises that sit below the balls, females have 3 vaginas, and in the process of trying to find out why/ how this works, I learned echidnas have 4 penises but only 2 can get hard at once (wtf even is nature!?)
pKxQ TIL George Washington never knew dinosaurs existed. He died 42 years before they were discovered.
1aek4 TIL that in 1688 false reports of Irish soldiers burning and massacring English towns prompted a mass panic, with thousands of people arming themselves and preparing to resist non-existent groups of marauding Irishmen.
JWOl TIL that a WWI submarine U-28 sunk after it was struck by an automobile which flew off a cargo ship it had just torpedoed