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TIL A Dog's Nose is Its Fingerprint

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BNkL TIL That a featureless app called “I am rich” was released on the app store for $999.99. 8 people purchased it before apple removed it the next day
GYwg TIL, that Kari Byron’s first job on Mythbusters was to create a cast mold of her buttocks.
V5J8 TIL John Glenn was the first person to eat in space aboard Friendship 7 in 1962. At that time it was unknown if ingestion and absorption of nutrients were possible in zero gravity. Glenn ate applesauce, demonstrating that people could eat, swallow, and digest food in a weightless environment.
O1og TIL that Tim Curry has been wheelchair bound since having a stroke in 2013.
QNrPL TIL that although the location of the former base of MI6 from 1964 to 1994 was meant to be classified, The Daily Telegraph called it "London's worst-kept secret, known only to every taxi driver, tourist guide and KGB agent".