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TIL Dogs know what time it is based off of scent

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4XDro TIL that no criminal named "chad" has ever been executed by hanging
oRROo TIL by calculating the number of synapses and neurons, the human brain has been estimated to hold up to 2.5 petabytes of information
odJK TIL that John Frank Dalton, who died at age 103 in 1951, publicly claimed to be the famous outlaw Jesse James.
vy5K TIL ‘Root beer’ was the name chosen over 'Root Tea’ because root beer’s first promoter felt miners were “more likely to drink a manly beer than a wimpy tea”
wop97 TIL the 1st jet airliner passed extreme tests yet broke up in normal flight b/c the tests actually made it stronger. A 2x overpressure test on the prototype Comet strengthened it through "cold-working," making it last longer. Production Comets, lacking stress testing, wore out much faster.