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TIL The Leaning Tower of Pisa is slowly straightening out

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4yQo TIL that MI5 once had a plan to use Gerbils to detect terrorists/spies at airports, as their sense of smell can acutely detect increased adrenalin in people. The project was scrapped when the Gerbils proved unable to tell the difference between terrorists and those afraid of flying.
7k1X TIL: Walruses don’t use their tusks to dig for food, they use their lips to dig for food. Their tusks are used to poke holes in the ice so they can pull themselves out of the water.
woJXE TIL that professional ice hockey player Duncan MacPherson disappeared in 1989 at the age of 23, and he was found dead 15 years later on a mountain in Austria.
pYMje TIL that it was popularly believed in ancient Rome that Emperor Nero would return from the dead to rule the Empire again as "Nero Redivivus", and this belief influenced early Christian depictions of the Antichrist
R5nX9 TIL self-defense is not an enumerated right under US Constitution