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TIL Amsterdam Schiphol airport has a sniffing dog on staff who can return lost items to their owners before they even know they’re gone.

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ne5lW TIL the first commercial fax service, between Lyon and Paris France in 1865, by Italian physicist Giovanni Caselli, was created 11 years before the invention of the telephone.
LQVod TIL that the 1963 hit song "I Will Follow Him" was recorded by fourteen-year-old Peggy March. She had just turned fifteen when it went to #1 on the Billboard chart. Peggy still holds the record for the youngest female artist with a #1 Billboard hit.
j6LpN TIL bull sharks can thrive in freshwater environments like Lake Nicaragua, where they can swim 120 miles up and down the San Juan River like salmon.
Kov9 TIL Director Guillermo del Toro’s father was kidnapped for ransom in 1997. He was returned safely after his family was forced to pay double the ransom. Del Toro has been in “involuntary exile” from Mexico ever since.
MeZEa TIL that in October 1940 the Soviet Union was offered an entry into the Axis powers; but agreements upon spheres of influences weren't reached.