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TIL A Dog's Nose is Its Fingerprint

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R7JY4 TIL that Dolly Parton, as a child slept in a urine soaked bed with several siblings, going on to add in this 1986 interview: “I’ve been aware of sex all my life. I enjoy sex, yeah all my life. Well I mean I got six brothers and cousins and you know all the sisters, kids are curious”
x66Bo TIL that the British MI5 hired an astrologer after they learned that Hitler supposedly used astrology to influence his actions. However it was later known that the predictions of Hitler's astrologer were extremely inaccurate and Hitler himself thought of astrology as 'complete nonsense'.
wmlW TIL that an influential feminist theorist published that E=MC2 is a sexist equation for giving the speed of light too much privilege and that men cannot understand fluid mechanics because they don’t menstruate which leaves them unfamiliar with fluids.
WkvRN TIL In the 1970s, the New Mexico Dept. of Game and Fish introduced 93 gemsbok (an African gazelle) to the White Sands Missile Range. Today, they number 3,000-6,000.
l7M6A TIL that bumblebees can fly higher than the peak of Mt. Everest. Researchers put the bees in plexiglass chambers where they simulated different altitudes. While all bees were capable of flying at over 24,278 ft (7,400 m), two bees were capable of hovering at over 29,527 ft (9,000 m).