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TIL dogs drink water by using the back of their tongue to scoop it up

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epP9J TIL a 2,000-year-old sapphire ring believed to have been owned by Roman Emperor Caligula sold for £500,000 in 2019. The sky blue ring also has an etching on it that's thought to depict Caligula's fourth and last wife, Caesonia.
MegxA TIL a coal stoker named Arthur John Priest survived the sinking of five ships, including the Titanic, earning the nickname "The Unsinkable Stoker"
NVkP TIL in WWII, Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä, (nicknamed “White Death”) sniped over 542 Soviet Soldiers in 100 days, all the while using only his rifle’s iron sights; no scope.
8aN6K TIL There is a Canadian TV anchor who translates all the English news into Inuktitut live on air. Igalaaq is the only Inuktitut supper hour TV program in the whole country where unilingual Inuktitut speakers have this one chance, for 30 minutes, to see someone speaking their language
ROBw TIL that before the late 17th century, humans’ sleep cycle was divided into two periods. The first sleep usually began at dusk, lasted four hours, and was followed by an hour or so of being awake. Then we had a second sleep, lasting another four hours.