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TIL Drug-sniffing dogs are wrong more than 50% of the time

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R669 TIL that females on average have lighter skin than males so they can absorb more vitamin D and calcium used for breast milk
6EZam TIL: "Preformationism" was the historical belief that sperm were actually fully-developed miniature men who grew into a fetus once deposited inside the womb.
rRXJ1 TIL Wang Meng was sent to Xinjiang to be "reformed" through labor in 1963 for writing a controversial piece. During this period of hardship he accrued much of the experience that would later become the material for his short stories and novels, and he later became China's Minister of Culture
9YLyB TIL that 9 of 10 of the teams in the Korean Baseball League are named after the companies that own them, such as the Kia Tigers and the LG Twins.
awXe9 TIL: Television consumers in the US are encouraged to report to the FCC any commercials that exceed the volume of the regular programming. As of December 13, 2012, all television stations have been expected to abide by rules established under the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act.