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TIL that dogs bark more than wolves because dogs have evolved into the equivalent of overgrown wolf puppies

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RMZ1 TIL there is a 6 foot wide stream with an unknown depth and a 100% fatality rate
kOZYE TIL of the Beggar's Badge, a badge given out by the Scottish government in the 1400s. Only beggars who demonstrated adherence to Christian morals, and could prove themselves unable to work, were given a badge. This gave the government a way to control who was allowed to beg.
9YyRD TIL that in 1956, F-11 Tiger fighter plane shot itself down because the plane was literally going faster than its own gunfire.
wa06 TIL Jack Daniels employees get a free bottle of Jack on the first payday of each month.
5Ymn TIL there is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.