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TIL That dogs have 2x the neurons of cats

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rNO7W Today I learned about Bazoul in Burkina Faso, where crocodiles are revered and played with by local children
xmk7 TIL Continuum, a magazine which served as an outlet for AIDS denialism including pseudoscientific “studies”, ended after the editors all died following long bouts with AIDS.
mxoWY TIL that a service Belgian Malinois was suspected of mauling a Pomeranian to death and ordered euthanized but was freed after DNA testing proved he was not the perpetrator
OoAy7 TIL that Saint Thomas à Becket, Petrarch, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Albrecht Dürer, Nicolaus Copernicus, Pope Gregory XIII (reformer of the calendar), Enzo Ferrari, Michaelangelo Antonioni, and Umberto Eco all studied at the same university
69YLW TIL that the French had for the best part of 5 centuries a very lucrative salt tax. So much so that at some point it was as valuable to France, as the American silver mines were to Spain (according to Cardinal Richelieu)