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TIL Brazilian Doctors are Experimenting with Using Tilapia Skin Instead of Human Skin Grafts for Treatment of Severe Burn Victims

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ZpGyD TIL letting your dog sniff on walks is like giving them a mental workout, helping them relax and absorb information about their surroundings.
R5Bg8 TIL that in world war 2, English soldiers would use passwords that had sounds that the language of the people they where fighting against did not have, so that they could tell if an unidentified person was an enemy soldier tying to infiltrate them by if they said these sounds correctly.
78Alb TIL there is a secret carpool society in Washington DC
rVVx TIL at 78, Sam Whittemore was the oldest colonial soldier in the American Rev War. He ambushed a British unit killing 1 by musket &2 by pistol. He was shot in the face, bayoneted &left for dead in a pool of blood. Colonials found him alive,trying to reload. Despite a grim Dr diagnosis he lived to 96
6koQ TIL Lola Montez, an Irish woman who passed herself off as Spanish, had affairs with Franz Liszt, Alexandre Dumas & the king of Bavaria (who made her countess, triggering a popular uprising and his own abdication), and later lived in Australia and the US Far West, all before dying at 40