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

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5VQyR TIL that when "Blackmail" premiered in 1929 as the first British film with sound and dialogue, two years after American sound films hit British theaters, it was promoted with the tagline "See and Hear it! Our mother tongue as it should be spoken!"
nWWPr TIL that the head of the Buffalo ASPCA helped develop the electric chair and experimented with it on hundreds of stray dogs.
BBjx TIL: that when the Mongol army was withering from the 14th century bubonic plague epidemic, they decided to catapult their infected corpses over city walls before invading. This is considered one of the first acts of biological warfare
VMv7D TIL that the first color 3-D feature film from a major studio was House of Wax in 1953, which was directed by Andre DeToth, who only had one eye
N74G1 TIL North Carolina is the one state where the law explicitly says men are allowed to finish sex even if the woman revokes consent