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TIL that during the search and rescue operations for the September 11th attacks, it was becoming rarer and rarer for rescue dogs to find anyone, leading them to feel failed, so firefighters hid in the rubble for the dogs to find them.

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W7GmN TIL Louis Eppolito, who played Fat Andy in ‘Goodfellas’ and a detective in ‘Lost Highway’ among other roles, was an NYPD detective who led a double life as an associate of the Five Families
e0mND TIL While film has popularized the use the language of the Navajo as the basis for building a hard to break code during WW2, the UK also had it's own unbreakable code: Welsh.
WkkEX TIL that Mozart's piece A Musical Joke (more of a prank, really) was designed such that it would appear that the music's composer had been incompetent and that its performers were making a number of embarrassing mistakes.
W7XQB TIL about a monument in Kyoto, Japan called Mimizuka (Ear Mound). Known as the city's least mentioned and most often avoided tourist attraction, it contains at least 68,000 noses severed during the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598).
bryj TIL that Americans were so confident that crime was caused by alcohol that on the eve of prohibition, some towns in the U.S. sold their jails.