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TIL: All the dog scast as Lassie in TV and movies have been descendants of the first dog to play the role

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Anyx TIL a study was made because of a bank robber who robbed a bank while having lemon juice on his face thinking it will make him invisible like invisible ink, that concluded that low-ability individuals suffer from illusory superiority.
kOVrm TIL in a 2005 NASA study, scientists successfully revived bacteria that had been in a frozen pond in Alaska for 32,000 years. The microbes had been frozen since when woolly mammoths still roamed the Earth. Once the ice melted, they began swimming around, unaffected, and quickly became infectious.
9Y7BM TIL that during the hunt for Radovan Karadzic, a member of the US Seals dressed in a gorilla uniform, in the hope that Karadzic's bodyguard would be so dumbfounded at seeing one in Yugoslavia, they'd slow down enabling an attack by US forces.
X0KZX TIL, Gene Gene The Dancing Machine, beloved figure on The Gong Show, lost both of his legs due to diabetes.
9wZ6D TIL Researchers found that cows produced 3 percent more milk when they were played slow music, like Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral Symphony as opposed to more upbeat tunes.