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TIL SCIENTISTS FINALLY KNOW WHY DOGS HAVE COLD NOSES

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nVXP TIL that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams visited William Shakespeare’s house together, and chipped off a piece of his chair as a souvenir.
b6rYE TIL about "Refrigerator Women", a trope in fiction where a female character is killed or seriously injured as a plot device to motivate the male characters, an example of which being the death of Gwen Stacey (Emma Stone) at the end of The Amazing Spider-Man 2
1aG7V TIL that German prisoners in Canada were treated so nicely some of them returned to Canada after the war and became Canadian citizens.
GALN1 TIL that during the falklands war in 1982 the british mistakenly killed three whales believing them to be enemy submarines.
QNPYE TIL: In the religion of ancient Rome, a haruspex was a person trained in haruspicy, the divination practice of inspecting the entrails of sacrificed animals, particularly the livers of sheep and poultry. The reading of omens specifically from the liver is known by the Greek term hepatoscopy.