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TIL daschunds look like they do because they were bred to hunt badgers and other animals that live in burrows

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Oowxe TIL that boudoir (a woman's private sitting room) is a term that derives from the French word 'bouder', meaning to sulk or pout. The initial purpose of a boudoir was for women to have a private space to sulk in
5V57B TIL in 1954, Jim Lovell lost his navigation systems while flying at night over the Sea of Japan. He was able to locate his carrier using the bioluminescence of dinoflagellates in its wake and successfully land. He would later go on to land the damaged Apollo 13 capsule.
7ZZL TIL that trees in Australia have been known to explode.
XWok TIL that President Ulysses S. Grant was arrested while in office. He was charged, booked, and released for speeding (on a horse) and had to pay a fine.
jDkR TIL approximately 25% of all black swan pairings are between homosexual males. Some couples are so eager for cygnets that “They steal nests, or form temporary threesomes with females to obtain eggs, driving away the female after she lays the eggs”.