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TIL Privately-owned K9 teams are increasingly being used by parents to sniff out drugs hidden around their homes by their teenage children

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xo45 TIL that the paleontology advisor on Jurassic Park is today trying to reverse evolve a chicken into a dinosaur.
Y7Mrd TIL among the disintegrated remains of the Space Shuttle Columbia was the diary of Ilan Ramon, which managed to survive mostly intact. The diary detailed his first six days during Columbia's final mission.
WLE8 TIL The “Portland Vase”, a wonder of ancient glass work crafted when Augustus Caesar ruled the Roman Empire, was broken in 1845 by a drunken visitor to the British Museum when he threw a sculpture at it.
1agAP TIL that Estonia is developing the world’s first Digital Nomad Visa that will allow people who do the majority of their work online to work and travel in Estonia for up to 365 days.
ZgaQ TIL traditionally Japanese ninjas did not always wear black, as this was more commonly depicted in kabuki theater, but instead would typically wear regular clothes that would allow them to easily blend in with commoners. They only wore black on certain occasions, usually when a mission was at night.