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TIL if you preheat your oven and smells like urine, you likely have mice

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16RNd TIL the A's baseball team used to have sheep grazing in the outfield
4X5Lo TIL dogs are perfectly capable of digesting starches despite being descendants of "carnivorous" wolves. Even though they share most of their genetics, modern dogs carry 22 copies of a gene that codes for an enzyme that breaks down starches, while wolves only carry 2 copies of it.
rNNLM TIL the author of Bambi was an avid hunter
xVnB1 TIL Scientists concluded that the chicken came first not the egg, because the protein which makes egg shells is only produced by hens.
neaaG TIL that before the adoption of artificial light in the 18th and 19th centuries, there's historical evidence for "first sleep" and "second sleep"—that is, an interrupted pattern of sleep in two shifts of slumber roughly four hours each, with a period of wakefulness in between.