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TIL that Kleenex was invented and intended as a paper filter for gas-masks during World-War I.

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9Y4Vm TIL that a group of Belgian authorities have trained giant rats to sniff out land mines planted in Africa
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AYm7 TIL, Vicuna, the source of the world’s rarest fabric, can’t be farmed because the animals starve themselves in captivity.
xWab TIL German animal protection law prohibits killing of vertebrates without proper reason. Because of this ruling, all German animal shelters are no-kill shelters.
loXmr TIL amazing footage of a patient undergoing open heart surgery with acupuncture as pain relief, fails to show that the patient also had 3 very powerful sedatives (midazolam, droperidol, fentanyl) and lots of local anaesthetic injected into the chest.