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TIL that dogs can smell your stress, and make decisions accordingly

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Y7DEx TIL that the WR for deepest scuba dive (332.35 m set by Ahmed Gabr in 2014) is highly controversial and likely faked, as there are far too many discrepancies in the provided proof for the dive, some of which could easily have killed him had he actually dived to that depth
pj9e TIL Chicago was raised over 4 ft with screw jacks in the 19th century in order to install the first sewer system in the US.
mxAnE TIL the record time for driving from NYC to LA (the ~2800 mile/4500 km "Cannonball Run") is 25 hours 39 minutes. To avoid getting stopped, the car was disguised as a pоlіcе interceptor, and had brake light kill-switches, radar detectors, laser diffusers, CB-radio, and a roof-mounted thermal camera
b6O0p TIL - In 1967, the Australian Prime Minister disappeared while swimming and his body was never found…
p84YQ TIL Archie comics released a limited series cross-over with the Predator franchise in 2015, in which several of the main characters are brutally murdered. It received critical acclaim upon release