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TIL of Basenji dogs, a dog breed that doesn't bark.

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M577 TIL Vietnamese don’t call it the Vietnam War, they call it the Resistance War Against America
wLpbE TIL Famous physicist Sir Roger Penrose conjectures that consciousness is a result of quantum mechanical phenomena in neurons. He has worked with anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff to suggest with anesthetic/biological research that microtubules may act as a suitable site in neurons for consciousness.
BjYk TIL that every restaurant Gordon Ramsay visited in Season 2 of Kitchen Nightmares (US) closed
78R0Z TIL married people who undergo gastric bypass surgery and lose significant weight are twice as likely to get divorced.
4ov5 TIL that in 1962, special, hi-tech locks were added to all U.S. nuclear missiles that would prevent launch without a secret, unique launch code. However, military officials quietly circumvented this safeguard by setting every locK to “00000000”. The codes remained unchanged until 1977.