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TIL that the MRI of dogs’ brains show that they see their owners as family and prioritize the smell of humans over everything

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BgaYx TIL in 2008 the US Border Patrol spent $8.4 Million to sponsor a Nascar driver to boost agency recruitment.
4Xd0o TIL Since 1980 Quebec have restricted unhealthy food and beverage advertising for children under 13. The Heart and Stroke Foundation has advised that, as a result, Quebec households have a lower likelihood to purchase fast food and Quebec youth and children have very low rates of obesity.
p8JP8 TIL that soldiers that wielded bronze swords used the metal filings from sharpening their blades after combat as a disinfectant for their wounds, due to copper's anti-microbial properties.
DQpJD TIL CLoudFlare has been using lava lamps, double pendulums, and Geiger counters as an alternative source of randomness for encryption keys since at least 2017
J1KE8 TIL that Queen Elizabeths mother, who died in 2002, lived so long that she was born in the Victorian era