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TIL that dogs and cats have special taste buds geared specifically for water.

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OG10Y TIL the song "It Wasn't Me" by Shaggy wasn't supposed to be an album release. In fact, the song only gained popularity because a Hawaii DJ, Pablo Sato, played the song from a download copy of the album he got from Napster like download site.
GYJO7 TIL that nearly 150 years later, someone was killed by a cannonball from the American Civil War
rgJx TIL 78% of former NFL players are broke or under financial stress 2 years after retirement. 60% of former NBA players are broke 5 years after retirement.
EAP7 TIL that Target has 2 U.S. based forensic labs where they solve retail crimes, felonies, homicides, and special circumstances cases for law bureaus that need the extra manpower, facilities, resources and time – free of charge.
yQpPM TIL Yoda, of the Star Wars universe, uses sentences that follow the object-subject-verb pattern. This pattern is only found in 0.3% of the world’s languages. This is called anastrophe, in which the normal word order of the subject, the verb, and the object is changed.