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TIL dogs sneeze to communicate to other dogs that they’re not being aggressive

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0w5mM TIL The real reason your finger and toe prints wrinkle up when in water is to increase your surface area ability to grip things in water. Subjects with wrinkled fingers can grip wet marbles better than those with out wrinkled fingers. Giving us evolutionary advantages in wet environments.
XErPQ TIL that Ursula K. Le Guin once rejected an offer from Hayao Miyazaki to adapt her Earthsea series for the screen, but changed her mind after watching Miyazaki's film My Neighbor Totoro
kOY55 TIL The shortest run for a TV series was 11 minutes. In 1969, a sketch show called Turn-On, by the creator of Laugh-In, was deemed so risqué that at the 1st commercial break of the 1st episode, a network announced it would no longer play the show and instead aired organ music over a black screen.
X0wEr TIL Otoboke Beaver, an all-female punk quartet from Japan, patterns their music's pacing on Manzai comedy.
j616n TIL that relics (remains) of St. Valentine can be found throughout Europe. His alleged skull is exhibited in Italy, while Ireland, Spain, the UK, Greece, the Czech Republic and Poland are among the countries said to be home to some of his other remains.