› added 2 years ago

101

TIL that some dogs can smell changes in your heart rate.

Read more inquirer.com

via reddit.com

QJgjM TIL of Marcella LeBeau, a WWII Army Nurse who served in the wake of D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge. She received the French Legion of Honor, the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits. The Native American woman is 98 and still active in her community in South Dakota.
wLVpE TIL that Misophonia (also called "sound-rage" syndrome) is a condition in which strong negative emotions and physical reactions (e.g. sharp anger, aggression, pain) are triggered by specific, common sounds.
RRvQ TIL there are 24 hours in a day because the Egyptians counted in base 12, not base 10 like we do today. They counted finger joints instead of fingers.
Pg5g TIL 12-year-old Steve Jobs called the home of Bill Hewlett (Hewlett-Packard) to request parts for building a frequency counter. Hewlett gave him the parts, then gave him a job building frequency counters.
Zpx7D TIL that a real estate agent in NYC used to buy the bread of all of the Orthodox Jews in NYC during Passover and then sell it back to them at cost so they didn't break Rabinical law.