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TIL dogs wag their tails to the right in positive situations like seeing their owner, and to the left in negative situations like the approach of an unfamiliar dog.

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dOQK TIL “i.e.” isn’t shorthand for “for example”, and actually means “in other words”. Whereas “e.g.” should be used to say “for example”
X0gwk TIL the Norwegian Lundehund is the only dog with 6 toes. It is a polydactyl: instead of the normal four toes per foot, the Lundehund normally has six toes, all fully formed, jointed and muscled.
na47 TIL that a blurry image is not always lost. There’s a program called SmartDeblur that can recover some types of blurry images.
yV8Xe TIL about the Oceanic White Tip, the only shark to be known to deliberately prey upon humans (as opposed to biting them).
V1B8 TIL Liza Minnelli only accepted the role of Lucille 2 on Arrested Development because she was asked in person by Ron Howard, who she had babysat when he was a child and she a teen