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TIL dogs can smell their owners from 11 miles away

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9w6m6 TIL that approximately 700 years before the Great Pyramids were built, there was a royal bloodline in Ireland, aka Atlantis
xjD7 TIL : In 2012, Israel ranked as the 2nd most educated country in the world (Canada was 1st).
e0bYg TIL that mosquitoes can fly in the rain because of their strong exoskeleton and tiny mass. The forces of raindrops colliding with them is the highest ever recorded acceleration that an animal survived, which are G-forces up to 300 times gravity.
PYQPw TIL A man in Florida drowned on his birthday, after crashing his car into a fire hydrant. He had managed to get out of his car, but was then sucked into a sinkhole likely created by the water pressure resulting from the fire hydrant's destruction.
kOdQB TIL that a physician and sexual predator named John Schneeberger successfully foiled several DNA tests by surgically installing a tube in his arm filled with someone else's blood and then tricking the lab tech into taking the blood sample from it.