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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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8aGXG TIL that Titan, largest of the Saturn’s moons, has oceans of liquid natural gas flowing on its surface and its fuel reserves are so large that they could act as our energy source for thousands of years
xVrrw TIL about the Opabinia, one of the strangest fossils ever discovered. It had five eyes on a flat, shrimp-like body without legs, was covered in chitinous scales and had a long, extensible mouhtpiece, like the one found in common houseflies, but much longer.
Lk850 TIL in 1991 two English pranksters took credit for many of Britain's crop circles, after an investigator declared one example "impossible for human beings to make". After some refused to believe them, Bower and Chorley started adding straight lines and squares to show they weren't natural.
GAeQ TIL the Ramones took their band name from the pseudonym Paul McCartney would use when checking into hotels, Paul Ramon.
7Ky7 TIL that for twenty years, the US nuclear launch code was ‘00000000’