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TIL foxes use the Earth’s magnetic field to target prey beneath the snow

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QJJ09 TIL people are finding razor blades hidden inside their walls because it was once common to throw used shaving blades thorough a slot at the back of medicine cabinets
16577 TIL that during World War II, a Great Dane named Juliana received the Blue Cross Medal for extinguishing an incendiary bomb by peeing on it.
Wk4QN TIL that False Killer Whales and Bottlenose Dolphins form interspecies social relationships; individual pairings can become buddies for 5 years and beyond
N7X4N TIL The former leader of Nigerian militant group Boko Haram was a flat earther (someone who denies that the Earth is a globe)
GYZgG TIL that James Bond originally used a Beretta 418 until a fan of the novels (and small arms expert) wrote to Ian Flemming criticizing it as "a woman's gun". When Flemming had Bond switch to his iconic Walther PPK in Dr. No, he wrote the fan into the scene as MI6's armorer