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TIL harmless bacteria called Pseudomonas and Proteus can make your dogs paws smell like popcorn and corn chips.

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4kaVX TIL that Guy Bradley, America's first game warden and reformed poacher, worked independently to increase the population of white egrets on Pelican Island, the worlds first wildlife refuge, before being killed by a poacher while investigating gunshots at his waterfront home.
9YgDm TIL The United States Government encouraged Nazis to emigrate to the states and compensated them in exchange for foreign intelligence. Many of them were war criminals, yet they faced little to no punishment and were allowed to live out the rest of their lives in America
d86Md TIL That other countries don't know about Australia's obsession for the 1973 Ike and Tina Turner song Nutbush City Limits it's so popular that there is a national dance that every student is forced to learn at school
DQw7r TIL a sheep farmer in France became a national hero, wrote a best seller book and ran for president after he took his tractor and drove it through a mcdonalds as a protest because he hated what the fast food restaurant was doing to farmers.
epV4L Today I learned that Heinz invented the word “Ketchup” ~100 years ago; before, it was called “Catsup”