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TIL that it's illegal to make or sell products with dog or cat fur in the United States

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j6jNM TIL about Osamu Mizutani, Also known as the "Yomawari Sensei" (Night Patrol Teacher), He was a night high school teacher in Yokohama, who helped over 330,000 students suffering with depression, harassment and addiction for over 22 years. He wrote a novel based on the events that happened to him.
78D5x TIL That in the 1980s, a man with severe OCD shot himself in the head in an attempt to commit suicide. Instead of killing him, the bullet destroyed the part of his brain responsible for his OCD, and he went on to become a straight-A college student five years later.
wo5yJ TIL ruminates like cows and camels gain protein by digesting some of the microbes that grow in their stomachs.
jNG4j TIL The US Navy uses dolphins to help it defend the world's largest stock pile of nuclear weapons at naval Base Kitsap.
0wwy5 TIL: Ettie Rout, champion of men with Venereal Disease during World War One, was largely ignored by her home country New Zealand. Mention of her brought a potential £100 fine.