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D6eY TIL People are training rats to detect landmines. The rats are too light to set the mines off and can smell the explosive compound extremely well. The rats are very fast and can clear an area 3 times faster than use of electronic mine sweepers and with higher accuracy.
mrKP TIL Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451, has long maintained his iconic work is not about censorship, but ‘useless’ television destroying literature. He has even walked out of a UCLA lecture after students insisted his book was about censorship.
O8WL TIL Eiichiro Oda the creator of the Manga One Piece originally planned it to last 5 years, but it has gone for 16 years and is nowhere near done.
e0Xp4 TIL that one of the most famous portraits in history, Girl With a Pearl Earring, is not a portrait at all. Portraits are of specific people. 'Pearl Earring' is a 'tronie', a painting intentionally designed not to look like anyone at all.
4XDGR TIL In "The Land Before Time X" the long-neck dinosaurs gather together and believe in a myth that during each eclipse they must all stretch out their necks and help push the sun up so it doesn't fall. They succeed and celebrate having saved the world.