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TIL Dogs can roll their eyes when annoyed, similarly to humans!

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Y77dG TIL in 1993, the U.S launched 23 Tomahawk missiles into a building believed to be HQ of the Iraqi Intelligence Service after Iraqi agents tried to assassinate former President George H.W Bush with a car bomb in Kuwait.
GYJ84 TIL nobody knew for certain if there was a point in a horses gait where all 4 legs were off the ground until it was finally settled in 1878 with 16 photos that captured it in quick succession. A horse ran over wires placed every 21 inches and triggered the shutter in ​one-thousandth of a second.
lo7XB TIL Pan, the second moon of Saturn, is irregularly shaped because it has absorbed some of Saturn's ring material
pjL4 TIL that no U.S Navy submarine is ever considered “lost” if it does not return, it is considered to be “still on patrol”
NmlN TIL The Tillman Act of 1907 was the first legislation in the U.S. prohibiting monetary contribution to national political campaigns by corporations. Roosevelt called for the prohibition after charges were made against him for his acceptance of corporate contributions to his presidential campaign.