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TIL that teacup dogs are essentially underdeveloped dogs resulting from breeding runts of the litter in order to create "the smallest dog possible"

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rNXBx TIL of Carriage dogs; dogs that travelled with carriages in order to protect them from bandits or to drive off crowds in front of early fire engines and would stay with the horses in order to help keep them calm.
b6D4Z TIL about Pine Mouth, where eating pine nuts can cause a bitter metallic taste in your mouth which can last weeks.
rNaXx TIL of the COMEX Hydra VIII experiment, where a team of professional divers dived to a depth of 536 m/1,752 ft while breathing Hydreliox, breathing gas consisting of 49% hydrogen, 50.2% helium and 0.8% oxygen
EgMEV TIL Salmon sperm DNA is used in molecular biology experiments as a standard or template for PCR and as a competitor in hybridisation assays due to its high purity. It can even increase the human DNA recovered from a cotton swab.
1bDd TIL: The king of Scotland sent two boys to be raised by a mute woman on an island, to try and discover if language was innate or learned.