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TIL when dogs sleep their paws heat up, triggering more bacteria activity, causing their paws to smell like corn chips.

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Lkx69 TIL that the first ever speeding ticket was issued to Walter Arnold on the 28th of January 1896 in Kent, England. He was blitzing through the town at 8mph (4 times the legal limit), was chased for 5 miles by a police officer on a bicycle, and was fined 1 shilling when he was finally caught.
jN9Ov TIL "This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts, and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours" - Is the message NASA launched as a record into space in 1977 attached to Voyager 1.
694RY TIL Belgium, Wisconsin has a large Luxembourgish population and Luxemburg, Wisconsin a large Belgian population due to a clerical error in processing their name applications
5bxD TIL One-third of the world cannot see the Milky Way
Kye9 TIL of the Gibbons twins. Both were published writers of genius intelligence that spoke to no one except each other in their own language. They were committed to an asylum after a crimespree where they made a pact that one should die so the other could live.