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TIL that dog facial tissue evolved to appear more humanlike to appeal to humans during the domestication process.

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5G4B TIL That there was an experiment where three schizophrenics claiming to be Jesus were brought together to see how they reacted with each other. They each eventually explained the other two as being mental patients in a hospital, or dead and being operated by machines.
wLyN6 TIL that what I thought was a knife sharpener isn’t actually a knife sharpener at all. It is called a honing steel. It realigns a curled edge on the knife to straighten out your blade. And now I need to buy an actual knife sharpener.
wbpY TIL that Aztecs raised Chihuahuas in order to eat them
a8w19 TIL in 2015 the US Forces wanted to update the 'loose lips, sink ships' warning from WW2, Warning against sharing information with others outside the forces. They had to tailor it for the Social Media generation, and came up with: 'loose tweets destroy fleets'.
wLNAW TIL about 'Umarells', a term used in Italy used to describe old men, who watch over construction sites with their hands behind their backs, offering unwanted advice.