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TIL the word dude originally referred to an 1880s hipster.

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4kk7g TIL that in 2017 a sailor was stranded and alone on a cargo ship near the Suez Canal for almost 4 years. Since the owner was having financial difficulties and the captain had gone ashore, the local court declared the sailor the legal guardian.
pYPYQ TIL that Dogs can smell stress from human sweat and breath. This means that dogs can be trained to preemptively offer comfort to sufferers of psychological illnesses like PTSD, to prevent attacks and improve quality of life
lo08N TIL Octopuses have many neurons in their tentacles such that a severed tentacle can continue reacting to stimuli even after they are no longer connected to the main brain. If you put food near a severed tentacle it will even try to feed it to a mouth that’s not there.
EM1o TIL due to a mutation in the MC1R gene, redheads require a larger doses of anesthesia compared to the rest of the population.
a8GNA TIL that in his classic Western spoof Blazing Saddles (1974), Mel Brooks named his character Gov. LePetomane after that of a 19th century French stage act of he same name. Flatulist Joseph Pujols combined the French verb péter ("to fart") with "mane" (maniac), loosely translating to "thefartmaniac".