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TIL Bloodhounds are the only animal whose evidence is admissible in court. One of the greatest sleuths in canine history was a Kentucky bloodhound called Nick Carter. His dogged persistence led to the capture and conviction of more than 600 criminals throughout his illustrious career.

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a8Gy0 TIL about the grasshopper mouse, a carnivorous rodent that is immune to various venoms released by its prey, such as scorpions.
wLQk6 TIL In 1981 a scientist who was researching medical uses for magic mushrooms was killed in a robbery. The top suspects confessed to the crime on tape and their fingerprints were at the scene yet they were never charged, the DEA later admitted they destroyed the evidence linking them to the crime.
E1Xl7 TIL Famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen once believed tamed polar bears would be a better choice than dogs for pulling sledges. He tried to tame a bear cub he’d captured on a trip to the Arctic but killed it with chloroform after it attacked him. The stuffed cub resides in a museum near Oslo.
Zpm9Y TIL sculptor Anish Kapoor bought exclusive rights to the Vantablack, world’s “blackest black". So artist Stuart Semple developed a new pigment “pinkest pink” to rival the exclusivity of Kapoor’s black. Semple’s pigment was released on sale to anyone in the world except Anish Kapoor.
d8l8 TIL Rep. Joe Barton (R–Texas) is against wind energy because “wind is God’s way of balancing heat,” and fears that wind turbines will slow down the wind thus heating up the earth. He also claims wind is a “finite resource.”