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WVKo TIL A woman has failed her driving test 771 times.
6EvmX TIL that snakes have forked tongues to be able to smell in three dimensions. By picking up odours from slightly different locations they are able to tell the direction and source of the smell.
9YeB7 TIL Sarbi, a Special Forces dog from Australia, trained in explosives detection, was MIA for 14 months in Afghanistan after disappearing during an ambush in 2008. She was later rediscovered by an American soldier and flown back to her Australian handlers.
x6ovD TIL during WW2, because of the lack of oil, gas generators were used to allow cars to use wood as fuel in several places such as France, Britain and Finland
rRKn0 TIL as a result of seeing the athrocities of forced collectivisation in the USSR, including famines and between 6 and 7 million deaths, Joseph Stalin's wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva committed suicide.