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TIL an app exists where you can call and wake up strangers.

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4kJ0X TIL the Bell X-14 was an experimental VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) jet. Only one was ever made, and NASA flew it for years to study thrust vectoring and vertical flight—research that helped pave the way for the Harrier and F-35B.
jNRXj TIL about Nannie Doss, an American serial killer responsible for the deaths of eleven people between the 1920s and 1954. Also referred to as the "Giggling Granny". It was revealed that she had killed four husbands, two children, her two sisters, her mother, a grandson, and a mother-in-law.
v19VK TIL Many common dog behaviors derive from the wolf predatory sequence(search, stalk, chase, grab, kill, dissect, eat). For example, ripping apart a stuffed animal is dissecting, a herding dogs desire to herd is a fragment of the stalk phase & hounds excel in the search phase
wLOvo TIL Wi-Fi can be used to see through walls.
aJdL TIL there are about 200,000 Africans in the city of Guangzhou, China, their number increasing by 30-40% every year, the area they live in is now called “Chocolate City” by locals