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TIL a horse stands on the tip of one toe. The remaining “fingers” have long since faded away with the evolution of the horse, but the split bones along the cannon bone are vestigial remnants of the second and fourth fingers

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8ewoa TIL the idea of machines gaining full consciousness and overthrowing humanity goes back all the way to 1863
loxb7 TIL Marilyn Monroe was discovered while working at the Radioplane factory in 1945. She worked on the first ever remote controlled drones during WWII.
DQaLp TIL about nábrók, or "necropants," wich is a pair of pants made from the skin of a dead man, believed to bring wealth and prosperity.
4XV65 TIL soldiers used to open cigarette packs from the bottom to avoid having to “bum” them to others since from a shirt pocket the pack appeared unopened
4Xeg6 TIL that the most decorated unit in the history of the US Military was composed almost entirely of 2nd generation Japanese-American soldiers during WW2, the 442nd Infantry Regiment.