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TIL that nose prints can be used to identify dogs in the same way that fingerprints can be used to identify humans.

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e0kog TIL one of the 'unwritten rules' of the Tour de France: if the Tour is passing through where one of the riders grew up, everyone will slow down to let that rider lead the whole Tour through his hometown (also, if the race leader needs to stop to take a pee break, everyone else slows down/stops too)
ZQXa TIL Searching for gold, Conquistadors Lázaro Fonte and Hernán Perez de Quesada tried to drain a sacred lake using a bucket chain. They reduced the water level 3 meters in 3 months and found about $100,000 in gold
rNEJo TIL Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter of "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" (1989) appeared in a virtual graduation message for the 2020 graduates of San Dimas High School. Some quotes from the message included: "San Dimas High School football does rule", "be excellent to each other", "And party on".
91J6 TIL According to an Old English time unit, one moment was 1.5 minutes.
Orwe TIL in Mandarin Chinese, the word for “kangaroo” translates literally to “bag rat”