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TIL Dogs have two noses. The second, which humans don’t have, is called Jacobson’s Organ and is located at the back of the nose. This double smelling system allows some trained dogs to sniff out bladder, kidney and prostate cancer with a 95% accuracy.

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Mep4K TIL there is a shortage in chemotherapy treatment medications across the USA due to the slim profit margins that medical companies make from them.
neeOr In part, we’re really just going back to our caveman roots.
NJae TIL That, over the course of 144 episodes, only one character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer died of natural causes. The following episode, which examines Buffy’s mourning/reaction to the first death she couldn’t have prevented, is consistently ranked as one of the best television episodes of all time.
wDoo TIL That the 1937 Soviet census committee was arrested for “sabotage” and records were destroyed after they showed a mere 162 million citizens, an increase of 1.5 mil since 1930, rather than the expected 185+ million. It is now used to estimate the # of Stalins victims.
e0A6L TIL: Rice University has a nonprofit ed-tech based initiative called OpenStax, which provides completely free, openly licensed college and university level textbooks for various subjects.