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TIL Soy sauce contains 10 times the antioxidants of red wine.

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J0EB TIL There are approximately 35,000 stray dogs living on the streets of Moscow. Some have learned to obey traffic signals and, through their acute sense of smell, navigate the subway system. There is even a statue for Malchik, a stray dog who was stabbed by a passerby in 2001.
4kVbg TIL The Carpinteria Tar Pits at Carpinteria State Beach in Santa Barbara are one of five natural asphalt lake areas in the world, 2nd in size to and older than the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. These tar pits date back to the Pleistocene Age (Ice Epoch), 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago.
XlPQ TIL Ravens, Bees, Ants and Humans are the only animals capable of linguistic displacement- the ability to communicate about objects or events that are distant in space or time
RVp7 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.
ZpKwB TIL that the city of Philadelphia, which was where Washington had to live when he was president, had laws in place that said any slave that lived there for more than 6 months would be freed. So, Washington set up a rotational schedule exchanging his slaves between states to prevent their freedom.