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TIL SCIENTISTS FINALLY KNOW WHY DOGS HAVE COLD NOSES

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pBKp TIL Judith Barsi (Voice of Ducky from The Land Before Time) was brutally shot and killed along side her mother by her father at the age of 10.
R7Rj7 TIL Pistachios used to almost always be sold coated with a deep red dye, to hide harmlessly but unattractively splotchy hulls. Discolored hulls is no longer an issue with better harvesting technology, allowing today's pistachios to be sold without dye.
JYND1 TIL that the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy was originally just a fan-fiction of the Twilight series. It was called Master of The Universe, written by EL James under the pen name Snowqueens Icedragon.
oBOM8 TIL since an Ottoman sultan was killed in Kosovo in 1389, the same few Turkish families have maintained the battlefield tomb of his internal organs. Every generation in the current line - last name "Türbedar" (tomb caretaker) - has lived there since 1854, but it will soon end with a Bosnian widow
Qb5X TIL PayPal & MasterCard pulled services for WikiLeaks, but not Neo-Nazi groups (video contains swearing)