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TIL that dogs rotate before lying down because turning in circles provides an opportunity to take one last look for potential predators and attacks before bedtime. It’s actually an inherited form of self-preservation and protection.

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Z8nv4 TIL that when ballpoint pens were first introduced in 1945, they cost $12.50 each, which would be $182 today's money.
x6MA0 TIL that in 2006, a British football fan placed a £200 bet that Liverpool player Xabi Alonso would have scored a goal from behind the halfway line of the pitch at some point during the season, after he saw it in a dream. Xabi Alonso did score from behind the halfway line and the man won £25,000
JYQnk TIL that in 2017 Iceland was concerned about an uptick in murders as there were four murders in the entire country, more than double the typical number
d8Wgr TIL Men who are sentenced to stoning in Iran are buried up to their waists, women up to their chests. If a person can escape, the sentence is terminated.
0JBM TIL Tim Harris is a man with Down syndrome who owns and runs a restaurant in Albuquerque, Tim’s Place. It’s the only known restaurant owned by a person with Down syndrome. He has also won more Olympic medals than Michael Phelps, at the Special Olympics.