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TIL Drug-sniffing dogs are wrong more than 50% of the time
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Today I learned that in the Marshall Islands (where Bikini Atoll, the namesake of the bikini, is located) bikinis are considered taboo because they expose the shoulders and thighs.
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TIL In his spare time, Steve Carell runs a General Store in Massachusetts.
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TIL An anthropologist created the language "Beama" for the film Alpha, about a young man separated from his tribe who befriends a wolf 20,000 years ago. She explored the research on phonetic sounds of protolanguages to determine how Beama should sound, and the director preferred more melodic-sounds
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TIL that it is possible for human babies to learn sign language well before they are able to speak, and that this has been shown to boost language skills later in life.
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TIL today in 1974 a U.S. Army soldier stole a Bell UH-1 helicopter and landed it on the South Lawn of the White House