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TIL that dogs can see their own farts

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nemKB TIL divers always enter the water backwards to break the water surface with the oxygen-tanks first, causing less of a painful impact, plus to protect the more fragile instruments they carry on their front.
m1DXM TIL one night at a craps table in Las Vegas in 1980s Elvis Presley's manager Colonel Tom Parker said "Let me rub your head for luck, boy" to Eddie Murphy before rubbing his head. Murphy wanted to punch him in the face, but said the 80-year-old Parker was "too old to be taught the limits of racism."
PYDXe TIL that, before iTunes, before CD's, music was played on something called a "phonograph record," or more simply, "record". Made of a type of plastic, record were flat discs with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. One needed a "phonograph", or "record player" to play the music.
wRVJ TIL In Switzerland it’s illegal to own just one guinea pig because they’re prone to loneliness
wkdo TIL early in Sylvester Stallone’s career he was so poor he sold his dog to a guy named “Little Jimmy” for $50 and later bought it back for $3000. He ended up casting Little Jimmy in his film Rocky.