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TIL dogs can smell their owners from 11 miles away

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dDLA9 TIL it took Marilyn Monroe 47 takes to film the line "it's me sugar" in Some Like It Hot.
awerL TIL that years before Peary reached the North Pole, he kidnapped a native child and stole one of the world's largest iron meteorites from the Inuit in Greenland, delivering both to the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
dMa8 TIL Irish airline tycoon Michael O'Leary acquired a taxi license for his luxury Mercedes S500L so he could use Dublin’s bus lanes for his daily commute.
OGPd6 TIL that after the video game crash of 1983, it was rumored Atari dumped hundreds of thousands of games, including E.T., at a landfill, leading to a 30-year-long urban legend until their discovery in 2014
rQ8o TIL a failed experiment of an 18 year old English chemist in search of a treatment for malaria in 1856 produced one of the world’s first synthetic dyes for the color purple, which severely impacted economic trade as some natural dyes were major commodities more valuable than silver or gold