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TIL that one of the reasons dogs like squeakers so much is because it mocks the sound of prey being killed

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Lk6b9 TIL: The reason capsaicin (the chemical in peppers) makes you feel like you’re burning is because it lowers the tolerance of the pain receptors in your mouth such that your own body heat is enough to trigger them to tells your brain that things are dangerously hot.
neZpr TIL that the Japanese language has only 100 syllables. But, it takes knowledge of about 1900 characters to write words with them. English has over 2600 one-syllable words, and thousands of different syllables, all of which are written using only 26 characters.
d8P99 TIL In 1860, Lincoln became President without even being on the ballot in 10 states (of only 33 states in the Union): Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.
oQLR TIL since 1914, rooftops of residential buildings near Wrigley Field have had seating available to watch the Chicago Cubs play baseball. In 2002, the Cubs began legal proceedings against some of those homeowners, asserting that they were illegally using a copyrighted game, and sued for royalties.
46xa TIL Sidney Sheinberg wanted to change the title of Back To The Future to ‘Spaceman From Pluto’. Robert Zemeckis, horrified, asked Steven Spielberg for help, so Spielberg wrote Sheinberg a memo convincing him that they thought his title was just a joke, embarrassing him into dropping the name change.