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TIL dogs get jealous just like humans

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vPd84 TIL in 2006 two woman were charged with criminal mischief for heating a fake penis called a “Whizzinator” in a convenience store microwave in order to pass a drug test. The clerk thought it was a real penis and called police. Charges were dropped after they agreed to replace the microwave.
XEej8 TIL although iodine was added to table salt in the U.S. beginning in 1924 as an antidote to goiters caused by iodine deficiency, it had the unanticipated side effect of raising the national IQ by an average of 3.5 points.
joPa TIL that when a Soviet anthropologist exhumed Timurlane, he found a transcription that read “Who ever opens my tomb, shall unleash an invader more terrible than I.” The exhumation occurred on the same day that Germany invaded the USSR.
4Kja TIL that the same parasympathetic system that commands your colon to go to the bathroom, is also the same system that controls your tears. Sometimes, these signals get crossed which is why some people cry when they poop.
kJAJ4 TIL William Henry Harrison, the US president with the shortest tenure (31 days) also had the longest inauguration speech (2 hours). This means 0.2% of his presidency was devoted to his inauguration speech, an unparalled ratio