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TIL when dogs defecate and urinate, they prefer to align their body axis with Earth’s north-south geomagnetic field lines.

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w6W8 TIL that in 1978 a lone pilot flying in Australia reported to air traffic control that he was being accompanied by an aircraft above him. Asked to identify the aircraft, he radioed “It isn’t an aircraft”. His plane disappeared and has never been found.
166rD TIL that 42% of motorcyclists who died in an accident were drunk
aworM TIL about the Battle of Jumonville Glen, in which a young George Washington ambushed a French Canadian outpost. This became the opening battle of the French and Indian War.
ZYrp TIL The German invasion of the Soviet Union caused 95% of all German Army casualties that occurred from 1941 to 1944.
Brwnr TIL that using a fridge to prove bread dough reduces the temperature of the dough, allowing it to prove slower and longer, which increases its digestibility.