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TIL Study proves “old person smell” is real.

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N79bN TIL That in Brazil, some prisons use Geese rather than Dogs to help patrol prisons-this is because prisoners would just give the Dogs food and they would become friendly with them, whereas Geese are only friendly with their owner, and will make a lot of noise if someone tries to escape
GYKG7 TIL Apollo-11 trajectory to the Moon is named "Kondratyuk Route" after a self-educated Ukrainian who had calculated it 50 years before the lunar flight
RkE7 TIL that the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan was so powerful that it actually moved the entire island of Honshu 8 feet east and tilted the Earth’s axis between 4 and 10 inches
R5be8 TIL Canadians coming back from Cornwall Island have to go through Canadian Border Services Agency, without ever having left Canada, because the road checkpoint is on the mainland and not on the island itself.
5VArD TIL that Junko Furuta, a kidnapping and murder victim, was upset that she would never see the last episode of Tonbo (Dragonfly とんぼ). Hiroshi Miyano stuffed a VHS of the episode in a concrete drum with her corpse, not out of remorse or regret, but because he did not want her to haunt him as a ghost