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TIL the Micro Scooter was invented by a Swiss man who wanted to get to his favorite sausage shop more quickly

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4pK5 TIL Before shooting Dogma, Kevin Smith warned Jason Mewes that he needed to be on point due to the involvement of actors such as Alan Rickman. Mewes then memorized the dialogue for every character in the entire screenplay. His motivation? Because he “didn’t want to piss off that Rickman dude.”
8avlV TIL the only non-military dog to be awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery, was a collie named Sheila. In 1944 she tracked down 4 injured US airmen on a mountain during a blizzard, after their B-17 crashed. She led locals to their location, who evacuated them before the bombs detonated shorty after.
r8gW TIL: The RNA Tie Club was a scientific gentleman’s club created to “solve the riddle of the RNA structure and… how it built proteins”.The motto was “do or die; or don’t try”. The 20 members each had a designated amino acid and a tie. They would exchange ideas over cigars and alcohol. 8 won Nobels.
GApDj TIL following the US entry into WWI in 1917, a wave of anti-German sentiment swept across the nation. This sentiment manifested in acts of aggression towards Dachshund dogs, with disturbing reports emerging of some being targeted and even killed by enraged mobs.
N7v9J Today I learned that testing to qualify an n95 is done by putting a persons head in a hood and then spraying something sweet or bitter into the hood and using the senses of smell and taste to verify a proper seal.