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TIL SCIENTISTS FINALLY KNOW WHY DOGS HAVE COLD NOSES
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TIL In 2014, a Chinese couple reportedly sold their two children to fund their internet gaming addictions
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TIL that in its early days, football was primarily played in colleges and was extremely violent due to the rugby style nature of the rules. It was so violent that in 1905 alone, there were 19 fatalities that US President Teddy Roosevelt threatened to shut down the sport unless changes were made.
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TIL that the Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Devanagari, Thai, Armenian, Mongolian, Hebrew, and Tibetan writing systems (among others) are all descended from Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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TIL only 3 people have technically died in space. In 1971, the Soyuz 11 crew was killed at an altitude of 104 miles when the cabin depressurized. The re-entry seemed to go off without a hitch. But recovery crews quickly discovered the crew inside dead, with blood streaming from their noses and ears.
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TIL about Jericho, a city in Palestine with history all the way back to 10,000 BCE. It is known as the earliest settlement to have a defensive wall, 1.8 metres high, and the first tower, 8.5 metres high. The people domesticated wild cereals and pulses, hunted wild animals, held rituals and made art.