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TIL: Dogs can smell when humans have low glucose levels (Type I Diabetes) and actually serve as a service animal.

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X0ER TIL During the Cold War, the US military developed a rifle that fired nuclear war heads. It was called the Davy Crocket.
Y7YG TIL Nikola Tesla, towards the end of his life, fell in love with a white female pigeon and spent over $2000 USD building a device that could support/heal her broken leg and wing.
VBr5B TIL that the Mohawk language, which lacks the consonants P and B in native vocabulary, substituted them with K and W respectively in early loanwords from French. The modern language has now borrowed P as a consonant restricted to loanwords.
lo0Q7 TIL the human body has 56 phalanges. The word phalange refers to an ancient Greek army formation in which soldiers stand side by side, several rows deep, like an arrangement of fingers or toes.
DQLje TIL they dehorn rhinos in Africa to deter poaching, resulting in a 30% lower chance the rhino will get killed by poachers.