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TIL Puppies are born blind, deaf, toothless, and unable to regulate body heat. They don’t start developing these until 2-4 weeks after being born.

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DokY TIL that Finland hosts the Wife Carrying World Championships every year. In which men attempt to carry their wives through an obstacle course the fastest, with the grand prize being his woman’s weight in beer.
XEwmR TIL of a computer program called Deliverance that legally killed several people in the 1990s. It was created by "Dr Death" (doctor and euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke), and came on a special laptop connected to an IV that injected a lethal dose of barbiturates. It was only legal for a short time
PRBn TIL the city of Whynot, North Carolina has it’s name because as residents were arguing over a name for the city, some bloke stood up and said “Why not name the town Why Not and let’s go home?” And so they did.
oXK7 TIL that seafood eaters ingest up to 11,000 tiny pieces of plastic every year - Researchers from the University of Ghent in Belgium believe that microplastics accumulate in the body over time and could be a long term health risk
PQLg TIL The Dubai Mall is the most popular place on earth, with 80 million visitors in the last 12 months.