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TIL much like human fingerprints, no two dog noses are the same; Canada has used this to identify specific dogs if the nose print is registered with the Canadian Kennel Club

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Rvna TIL no one knows what Jesus looked like; “The artistic depictions down the ages have total and complete variation, which indicates that nobody did a portrait of Jesus or wrote down a description, it’s all been forgotten.”
e0YXE TIL If you totally sleep-deprive a white-crowned sparrow in the laboratory during the migratory period of the year, it suffers virtually no ill effects whatsoever. The US government continues to have a vested interest in this sparrow: their hope for developing a 24-hour soldier.
OodWR TIL about Flordelis, a Brazilian pastor and congresswoman. She married one of her 51 adopted children in 1998 and then in 2020 was charged with orchestrating his murder, at the hands of two more of her adopted children
R7dE6 TIL C3P0 and R2D2 guest-starred on a 1980 episode of Sesame Street. Along with singing and playing games, it also featured R2 falling in love with a fire hydrant.
VjRk TIL Jonathan Brandis, best known as Sebastian in the sequel to ‘the NeverEnding Story’ auditioned for the role of Anakin in 'Star Wars: Episode II’ Sadly, today marks the anniversary of his death 12 years ago. RIP