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TIL dogs get jealous just like humans

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lpV5 TIL the 16th century monk Giordano Bruno proposed that stars were distant suns surrounded by exoplanets that could contain life. He was sentenced to death by the same man who sentenced Galileo to death.
8aBVZ TIL mythological smith gods, such as Hephaestus, Weyland, Svarog, Ptah, etc., are often depicted as crippled or deformed. This is now believed to be from constant exposure to arsenic, which was added to copper to make bronze.
XEj9D TIL about Jocko Graves, a boy who touched the heart of George Washington and who died helping the American Revolution because he was too young to fight.
x6pW0 TIL that the Ada programming language was designed in 1977 to replace 450 programming languages used by the US Dept. of Defense at the time
lMVA TIL that Humble Oil, which would later become Exxon Mobil, advertised that it sold enough energy in a day to melt 7 million tons of glacier.