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TIL that dogs can be left or right handed and the preferences are more evenly distributed than in humans.

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7Ljp TIL of the dramatic device “Chekhov’s Gun”. “Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there.”
P1PYe TIL that Tsar Nicholas II and King Geroge V both had dragon tattoos and both of them got said tattoos while being in Japan.
KOZpE TIL that like us, the Romans divided the day into 24 hours. However, there were always 12 hours of light and 12 hours of darkness, so the actual length of the hours varied with the season
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