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TIL bomb-sniffing dogs will calmly sit when they smell explosive materials. They will never bark or paw at something they detect

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97pB TIL that Charles Darwin became interested in how vegetables crossed the oceans. In one experiment, Darwin fed seeds to a bird, shot it, and then placed the carcass in a bath rub to float. After a month, Darwin retrieved the seeds from the floating carcass and planted them. The seeds germinated.
xVO8g TIL that the United States Airforce Thunderbirds Demonstration Squadron, are part of the USAF combat force and can be rapidly integrated into an operational fighter unit and be combat ready in less than 72 hours if the need arises.
a8VGN TIL that Mattiedna Johnson, born to Mississippi sharecroppers in 1918, used techniques she’d used to make things like butter, jam and soap on her childhood farm to develop techniques to capture and preserve molds for research that eventually helped in the development of drugs to fight scarlet fever.
0Mjv TIL that Kappa is a mythical Japanese reptile that wants to steal a magical ball from your anus
oDJ7 TIL that Something by the Beatles and Layla by Eric Clapton are written about the same woman, Pattie Boyd