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TIL though dogs are known for their powerful sense of smell compared to humans, we beat dogs in sense of taste. A human tongue contains 9,000 taste buds, dogs have only around 1,700.

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PYPMg TIL exactly 45 years ago (12/06/73), Nixon used his power under the 25th Amendment to appoint Ford as his new vice president the United States. To date, Ford remains the only person to assume the roles of both President and Vice President without having been elected by the electoral college.
ZkbR TIL originally Chicago wasn’t built high enough above Lake Michigan to be able to dig sewers, so engineers lifted the entire city by 4-14 feet starting in 1855. The project took 20 years to finish.
x6XpB TIL that football (soccer) pitches, even at the highest level of competition, are not standard in size
yGjX TIL Bald Eagles can swim and have a butterfly like stroke
kEAB TIL that GCHQ complained “…a surprising number of people use webcam conversations to show intimate parts of their body to the other person”, which means staff processing images harvested from millions of webcams around the world keep being faced with genitals.